Test 1 · Dyes, inks and colouring
Mia: "jeans fade cos the blue sinks deep inside the threads". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: jeans, blue · What happens: fade, sink, be · To what, where: threads
This is test 1 of lesson 27 «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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
Sentence 1: Mia: "jeans fade cos the blue sinks deep inside the threads".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 fade | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fade | punct |
| 4 | jeans | jeans | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 fade | nsubj |
| 5 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mia | conj |
| 6 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 9 sinks | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blue | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sinks | nsubj |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fade | advcl |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 9 sinks | advmod |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 threads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 threads | det |
| 13 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sinks | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 threads | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mia | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade in a quote | present | jeans | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sink in a quote | present | the blue | the threads | deep property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The blue sits on the outside and rubs off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blue | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 outside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 outside | det |
| 6 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sits | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rubs | cc |
| 8 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sits | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 rubs | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the blue | the outside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location | ||||
| 2 | rub off | present | the blue not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The jeans dry out and lose colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jeans | det |
| 2 | jeans | jeans | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 dry | nsubj |
| 3 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 dry | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lose | cc |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dry | conj |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry out | present | the jeans | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lose | present | the jeans not said here | colour | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality |
Option 3
The blue is eaten by the soap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blue | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 soap | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soap | det |
| 7 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · passive | the soap | the blue | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 4
She's right, it sinks to the middle of each thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sinks | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sinks | nsubj |
| 6 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sinks | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thread | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 thread | det |
| 12 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | it | to the middle of each thread | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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