Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…
What colour were Tina's pigtails, can you remember?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour, you · What happens: be, remember · To what, where: pigtails
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pigtails | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pigtails | cop |
| 4 | Tina | Tina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pigtails | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Tina | case |
| 6 | pigtails | pigtail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 remember | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pigtails | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pigtails | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | what colour | Tina's pigtails | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | can | you | Tina's pigtails not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pigtail=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yellow, proper yellow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 proper | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 yellow | conj |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
pink, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bruv | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 pink | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yellow, proper yellow, like a bright buttercup in the summer sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buttercup | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yellow | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | amod |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 yellow | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buttercup | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 buttercup | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 buttercup | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buttercup | amod |
| 9 | buttercup | buttercup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 12 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sun | compound |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buttercup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
dark brown, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 dark | conj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proper | punct |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 dark | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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