Test 4 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

fr what colour was her silky boot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: silky boot

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boot	nsubj
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boot	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boot	nmod:poss
6	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boot	amod
7	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 boot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr	her silky boot					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 · ✓ the right answer

chestnut brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brown	compound
2	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

dark violet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 violet	amod
2	violet	violet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a deep reddish brown of polished leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 brown	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
3	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
4	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 leather	case
6	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leather	amod
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brown	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the shade of old burnt sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shade	det
2	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sugar	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sugar	amod
5	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sugar	amod
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shade	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shade			old burnt sugar					nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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