Test 6 · Votes for women
You see purple, white and green ribbons at a women's rights march. Why those colours?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, rights · What happens: see, march · To what, where: purple ribbons
This is test 6 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» of the history 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: You see purple, white and green ribbons at a women's rights march.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ribbons | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purple | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 green | cc |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purple | conj |
| 8 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obj |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 march | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rights | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 women | case |
| 13 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 march | nsubj |
| 14 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | purple ribbons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ribbon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | march | present | a women's rights | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Why those colours?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 colours | det |
| 3 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They are the colours of the Union Jack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 colours | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 colours | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 colours | det |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Jack | det |
| 7 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jack | compound |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 colours | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | the colours | of the Union Jack | tree rules |
Option 2
They were chosen in 2020
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 2020 | case |
| 5 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 chosen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | They | 2020 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They were the suffragettes' colours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 colours | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 colours | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 suffragettes | det |
| 4 | suffragettes | suffragette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 colours | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 suffragettes | case |
| 6 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | the suffragettes's colours | tree rules |
Option 4
They are a football club's colours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 colours | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 colours | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 4 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 club | compound |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 colours | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 club | case |
| 7 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | a football club's colours | tree rules |
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