Test 9 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature
If there were no air around the Earth, what colour would the daytime sky look?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: air · What happens: be, look
This is test 9 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | nsubj |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 air | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 look | obj |
| 11 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 14 | daytime | daytime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sky | amod |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no air around the Earth not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | would | no air around the Earth | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |
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
Blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
White
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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