Test 10 · Colours
Daisy shouts, "It's not green, it's grey, man!" What does gris mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Daisy, gris · What happens: shout, not be, be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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: Daisy shouts, "It's not green, it's grey, man!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouts | nsubj |
| 2 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 green | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 green | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 green | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 green | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 green | advmod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shouts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grey | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grey | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grey | cop |
| 12 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shouts | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grey | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Daisy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Daisy | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Daisy | grey property | 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: What does gris mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | gris | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Grey or green, both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 both | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 green | cc |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grey | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grey | punct |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Grey, so the French were right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 right | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 French | det |
| 5 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 right | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Grey | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the French | right property | tree rules |
Option 3
Black, so they were both wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrong | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 wrong | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | cop |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 wrong | advmod |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Black | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | both, wrong property | tree rules |
Option 4
Green, so Daisy was right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 right | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Green | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 4 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Daisy | right 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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