Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

Bruv, what colours were the trees the prince took?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees, Bruv colours, prince · What happens: colour, be, take · To what, where: trees

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 colours	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 colours	nsubj
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trees	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trees	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trees	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	colour		the trees		tree rules
2	is a	past	Bruv colours	the trees	tree rules
3	take	past	the prince	the trees not said here	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

both green and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 green	advmod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gold	cc
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 green	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

one white, one blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 one	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 one	nmod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

one red birch and one green fir tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 birch	nummod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birch	amod
3	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tree	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tree	nummod
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birch	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

one red, one green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 one	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 one	nmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/698-pg2435-part38/t13/