Test 1 · ★ · Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair

Mate, so the golden hair, was it actually shiny gold?

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

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 785 «Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gold	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hair	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 hair	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hair	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gold	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gold	nsubj
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 gold	advmod
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gold	amod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 gold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the golden hair	shiny gold				actually property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it was very bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bright	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 bright	advmod
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bright property	tree rules

Option 2

No, it was just a pale brown colour, the same as the hair of his brothers

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 colour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 colour	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colour	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 colour	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 colour	det
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	amod
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	amod
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 same	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 hair	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hair	det
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 same	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 brothers	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brothers	nmod:poss
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a pale brown colour					tree rules
2	be							as the hair of his brothers	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it shone like the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	it					like the sun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, it was only a dull yellow colour, like straw from the barn

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 colour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 colour	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colour	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	9 colour	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 colour	det
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	amod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	amod
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 straw	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 straw	case
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colour	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 barn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barn	det
15	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 straw	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a dull yellow colour and straw from the barn					tree rules

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