Test 4 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: color

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrapper	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapper	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 maid	case
7	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bet	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 color	punct
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 color	det
10	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapper	appos
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 color	nmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 color	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		color					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

Blue silk, always torn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silk	amod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 silk	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 torn	advmod
5	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 silk	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	participle		Blue silk not said here				always property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yellow satin, always new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 satin	amod
2	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 new	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 satin	amod

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

Option 3

Green velvet, freshly washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 velvet	amod
2	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 velvet	punct
4	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	5 washed	advmod
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 velvet	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	participle		Green velvet not said here				freshly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Black wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wool	amod
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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