Test 1 · Colours
Amelia jokes the flag is "blue, white, red, but posh." ("Posh" means fancy.) How would she say it, and in what order?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amelia, flag, Posh · What happens: joke, be, mean, say · To what, where: fancy, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 9 «Colours» of the French 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: Amelia jokes the flag is "blue, white, red, but posh."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia | Amelia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jokes | nsubj |
| 2 | jokes | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flag | det |
| 4 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blue | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blue | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blue | punct |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jokes | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blue | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blue | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 posh | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 posh | cc |
| 14 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jokes | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jokes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 jokes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present | Amelia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the flag | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | the flag not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the flag not said here | 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: ("Posh" means fancy.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Posh | punct |
| 3 | Posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Posh | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Posh | fancy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Topic |
Sentence 3: How would she say it, and in what order?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 order | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 order | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 order | det |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | Posh | fancy | what order | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Manner |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
bleu, rouge, blanc, from the top down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rouge | punct |
| 3 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blanc | punct |
| 5 | blanc | blanc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 top | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 top | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
blanc, bleu, rouge, from the bottom up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blanc | blanc | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bleu | punct |
| 3 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blanc | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rouge | punct |
| 5 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blanc | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bottom | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bottom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 blanc | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 blanc | compound:prt |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
rouge, blanc, bleu, from the flagpole outwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blanc | punct |
| 3 | blanc | blanc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rouge | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bleu | punct |
| 5 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rouge | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flagpole | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 flagpole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flagpole | det |
| 9 | flagpole | flagpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 rouge | conj |
| 10 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 9 flagpole | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
bleu, blanc, rouge, from the flagpole outwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blanc | punct |
| 3 | blanc | blanc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rouge | punct |
| 5 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flagpole | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 flagpole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flagpole | det |
| 9 | flagpole | flagpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bleu | conj |
| 10 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 9 flagpole | advmod |
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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