Test 12 · Colours
★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you write "a leaf" of that colour? (A leaf is une feuille.)
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ Blue paint, you, leaf · What happens: mix, make, write, be · To what, where: new colour, leaf, une feuille
This is test 12 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: ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paint | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 paint | amod |
| 5 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 paint | cc |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 paint | amod |
| 8 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paint | conj |
| 9 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 make | csubj:pass |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 colour | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colour | amod |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | ★ Blue paint and yellow paint | a new colour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product |
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: How do you write "a leaf" of that colour?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 write | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaf | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leaf | det |
| 7 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaf | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 colour | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 colour | det |
| 11 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaf | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · do-support | you | a leaf of that colour | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
Sentence 3: (A leaf is une feuille.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 feuille | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feuille | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feuille | cop |
| 5 | une | une | X | _ | 6 feuille | compound |
| 6 | feuille | feuille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feuille | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 feuille | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a leaf | une feuille | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
une feuille verte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | _ | root | root |
| 2 | feuille | feuille | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 une | flat:foreign |
| 3 | verte | verte | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 une | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
un feuille verte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | feuille | feuille | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 un | flat:foreign |
| 3 | verte | verte | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 un | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
une verte feuille
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 feuille | dep |
| 2 | verte | verte | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 une | flat:foreign |
| 3 | feuille | feuille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
une feuille vert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | _ | 2 feuille | compound |
| 2 | feuille | feuille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | vert | vert | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 feuille | dep |
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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