Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

Bruv, what colour is the wild man's skin, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be · To what, where: skin

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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	10 skin	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 skin	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 man	case
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 skin	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	10 skin	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 skin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	what colour	the wild man's skin				Bruv vocative	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

brown like rusty iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 iron	case
3	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 iron	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 brown	nmod

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

Option 2

brown like old wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 wood	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 brown	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

covered in brown hair like a bear's coat from top to toe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hair	case
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 coat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bear	case
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 toe	case
13	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						like a bear's coat; from top to toe; in brown hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hair=Theme

Option 4

brown all over like a rusty iron kettle left out in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 over	advmod
3	over	over	ADV	_	1 brown	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 kettle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kettle	det
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kettle	amod
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kettle	compound
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 brown	obl
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kettle	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 left	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rain	det
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	participle		a rusty iron kettle not said here		the rain			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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/784-pg2591-part60/t3/