Test 4 · Colours

«lùsè, the road colour lol» What did you mean to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: lùsè · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 8 «Colours» of the Chinese street 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 lùsè	punct
2	lùsè	lùsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	compound
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lùsè	appos
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 colour	discourse
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lùsè	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 mean	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 mean	nsubj
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lùsè	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mean	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lùsè	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	you	lùsè					tree rules
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

huīsè, grey, like a rainy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huīsè	huīsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 huīsè	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 huīsè	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

lǜsè, green, with the rounded ü

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lǜsè	lǜsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 green	punct
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lǜsè	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ü	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 ü	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ü	det
7	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ü	amod
8	ü	ü	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lǜsè	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

lánsè, blue, like the sky above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lánsè	lánsè	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 blue	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sky	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blue	obl
8	above	above	ADV	_	7 sky	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

hēisè, black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hēisè	hēisè	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 black	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 hēisè	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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