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Test 9 · Colours

In a cartoon an emperor's robe is painted green. What would real old stories say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real old stories · What happens: paint, say · To what, where: robe, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon an emperor's robe is painted green.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painted	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 robe	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 emperor	case
7	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painted	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 painted	aux:pass
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 painted	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 painted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive		a emperor's robe		a cartoon		green property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cartoon=Destination

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 would real old stories say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	real old stories						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

It should be yellow, the emperor's colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yellow	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 yellow	cop
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 colour	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colour	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 emperor	case
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yellow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	It					yellow property	tree rules

Option 2

Any colour was fine for an emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 emperor	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	any colour					for a emperor; fine property	tree rules

Option 3

It should be white, the colour of good luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 white	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 white	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 colour	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 luck	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 luck	amod
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	It					white property	tree rules

Option 4

It should be pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pink	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pink	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pink	cop
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	It					pink property	tree rules

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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