Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…
Innit, what colour did the carpenter paint the calf?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit colour, carpenter · What happens: do, paint · To what, where: calf
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 colour | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 colour | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carpenter | det |
| 7 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paint | nsubj |
| 8 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 did | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 calf | det |
| 10 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paint | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what Innit colour | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | paint | infinitive | the carpenter | the calf | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent calf=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
red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
brown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
tan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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