Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

What colour is the rose of grief which the queen was said to bear?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be, say, bear · To what, where: rose, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rose	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux:pass
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rose	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bear	mark
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	what colour	the rose	of grief	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		the queen		tree rules
3	bear	to-infinitive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

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.

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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