Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Real talk, what did the blood-beech look like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood beech · What happens: look · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 look	obl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 look	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beech	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beech	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 blood	punct
9	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	parataxis
11	like	like	ADP	_	10 look	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the blood beech	Real talk					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

pale grey, like a burnt log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grey	amod
2	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 log	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 log	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 log	det
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 log	amod
7	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grey	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dark brown, like a dead negro tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brown	amod
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
7	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

bright green, like a young oak full of spring leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oak	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oak	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 oak	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 oak	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oak	amod
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oak	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	compound
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

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

Option 4

bright green, like a fresh oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oak	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oak	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 oak	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 oak	det
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oak	amod
7	oak	oak	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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