Test 6 · Dyes, inks and colouring
You colour with a black felt-tip and drip water on it, and other colours appear. Why?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, other colours · What happens: colour, appear
This is test 6 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: You colour with a black felt-tip and drip water on it, and other colours appear.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 colour | nsubj |
| 2 | colour | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tip | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tip | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tip | amod |
| 6 | felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tip | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
| 8 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colour | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 water | cc |
| 10 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 water | compound |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tip | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 water | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 appear | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 colours | amod |
| 17 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 appear | nsubj |
| 18 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 colour | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 colour | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | present | You | with a black felt tip and drip water on water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | other colours | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Water makes new colours out of nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 colours | amod |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Water | new colours | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product |
Option 2
Water turns black ink into rainbow ink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ink | amod |
| 4 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 ink | case |
| 6 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ink | compound |
| 7 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Water | black ink | rainbow ink | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ink=Theme into ink=Trajectory |
Option 3
The paper had hidden colours inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 paper | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 colours | amod |
| 5 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the paper | hidden colours | inside property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Black felt-tip ink is a mix of colours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ink | amod |
| 2 | felt | felt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tip | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
| 4 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ink | compound |
| 5 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mix | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mix | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mix | det |
| 8 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 colours | case |
| 10 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mix | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Black tip ink | a mix | of colours | tree rules |
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