Test 5 · ★ · Colours of fire: fireworks

Gran: "the old street lamps were orange as anything, why tho?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry 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	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 orange	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 orange	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 orange	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamps	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lamps	amod
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamps	compound
7	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 orange	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 orange	cop
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 anything	case
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 orange	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 orange	parataxis
14	tho	tho	X	Foreign=Yes	13 why	advcl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 orange	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 orange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Gran					as anything; orange property	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

They had orange glass fitted in front of the bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glass	amod
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 glass	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fitted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bulb	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bulb	det
10	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	orange glass					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
2	fit	participle		orange glass not said here		front of the bulb			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in front=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They used sodium, which glows yellow-orange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sodium	sodium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 glows	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 glows	nsubj
6	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sodium	acl:relcl
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 orange	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 yellow	punct
9	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They	sodium					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sodium=Patient
2	glow	present	sodium	yellow orange					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme

Option 3

They burned orange candles inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 candles	amod
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burned	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 burned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	They	orange candles				inside property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent candle=Theme

Option 4

Orange light was cheaper to paint on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 light	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 paint	mark
6	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheaper	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 paint	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Orange light					cheap property	tree rules
2	paint on	to-infinitive	Orange light not said here						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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