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Test 7 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

★★★ Text: «Pip has two cats, Mo and Bea. Mo is black. Bea is grey with a white tail.» Q: «What colour is Pip's grey cat's tail?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pip, Mo, Bea, colour · What happens: have, be · To what, where: two cats, tail

This is test 7 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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: ★★★ Text: «Pip has two cats, Mo and Bea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Text	nsubj
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Text	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Text	compound
4	Text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
7	Pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Text	acl:relcl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cats	nummod
10	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Mo	punct
12	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cats	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Bea	cc
14	Bea	Bea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mo	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Pip	two cats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

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: Mo is black.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 black	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 black	cop
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mo					black property	tree rules

Sentence 3: Bea is grey with a white tail.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bea	Bea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grey	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 tail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tail	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grey	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 grey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bea					with a white tail; grey property	tree rules

Sentence 4: Q: «What colour is Pip's grey cat's tail?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Q	Q	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 tail	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 tail	punct
4	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tail	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tail	cop
7	Pip	Pip	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Pip	case
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tail	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 cat	case
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Q	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 tail	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 tail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	what colour	Pip's tail					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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.

Option 2

Grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The text doesn't say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

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.

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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