Exam question 1 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…

Which colour did Lizina's body become after her immersion in the liquid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour, body · What happens: become, immerse · To what, where: liquid

This is exam question 1 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
4	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 body	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Lizina	case
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 immersion	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 immersion	nmod:poss
10	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 liquid	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 liquid	det
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 immersion	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · do-support	which colour				after body's immersion in the liquid		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	immerse		body			the liquid			nom immersion «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

Pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Brass-coloured metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coloured	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Brass	punct
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 metal	amod
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Shiny golden silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silver	amod
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 silver	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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