Test 3 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature
"my veins are blue so my blood's blue inside, obvs". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: veins · What happens: be
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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: "my veins are blue so my blood's blue inside, obvs".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 veins | nmod:poss |
| 3 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 blue | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blue | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | advcl |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 blue | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obvs | punct |
| 13 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blue | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my veins | obvs obl; blue 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.
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
Blood is always red; it only looks blue through skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 red | advmod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 looks | advmod |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | conj |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looks | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Blood | always, red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | Blood | through skin; blue property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through skin=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, blood is blue until it meets air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 meets | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meets | nsubj |
| 8 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | advcl |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | blood | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | blood | air | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Co-Agent |
Option 3
No, blood is actually green inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 green | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 green | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 green | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 green | advmod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 green | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | blood | actually, green, inside property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, blue blood is in the veins only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blood | amod |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 veins | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 veins | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 veins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 veins | det |
| 8 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 veins | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | blue blood | the veins | tree rules |
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