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Test 4 · Dyes, inks and colouring

A cartoon king wears purple because "purple was the cheapest dye". What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon king, purple · What happens: wear, be · To what, where: purple, cheapest dye

This is test 4 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: A cartoon king wears purple because "purple was the cheapest dye".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	compound
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wears	nsubj
4	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wears	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 dye	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 purple	punct
8	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dye	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dye	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dye	det
11	cheapest	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 dye	amod
12	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wears	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dye	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	a cartoon king	purple					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent purple=Theme
2	is a in a quote	past	purple	the cheapest dye					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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Purple dye was rare and very dear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dye	amod
2	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rare	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rare	cop
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dear	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 dear	advmod
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rare	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Purple dye					rare property	tree rules
2	be		Purple dye not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Purple was made from onions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purple	Purple	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 onions	case
5	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Purple		onions			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from onion=Material

Option 3

Kings only ever wore gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wore	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 wore	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 wore	advmod
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Kings	gold			ever		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4

Purple was banned for kings by the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 kings	case
5	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive	the law	Purple				for kings	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

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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