Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

from the sky, what color was that strip of Egypt?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: color · What happens: be · To what, where: strip, sky

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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	from	from	ADP	_	3 sky	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sky	det
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strip	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sky	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 color	det
6	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strip	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 strip	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 strip	mark
9	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Egypt	case
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 strip	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 strip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what color	strip		the sky		of Egypt	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

a strip of golden sand with green fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strip	det
2	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sand	amod
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strip	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fields	amod
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strip	nmod

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

Option 2

golden, like a ribbon laid along the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ribbon	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ribbon	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 ribbon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ribbon	det
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ribbon	acl
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	participle		a golden ribbon not said here		the river			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent along river=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	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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