Test 13 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Wait, what colour was Else's hair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, colour · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: hair

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hair	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hair	cop
6	Else	Else	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Else	case
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	what colour	Else's hair					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

Golden, like wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wheat	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 wheat	case
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Golden	conj

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

Option 2

Brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Flaxen, like sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sunshine	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 sunshine	case
4	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flaxen	conj

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

Option 4

Dark, like wet sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sand	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sand	amod
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dark	conj

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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