Test 10 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts
You shine sunlight through a glass of water and look closely at the rainbow patch. What do you see?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: shine, look, see · To what, where: sunlight, glass
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 shine sunlight through a glass of water and look closely at the rainbow patch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 shine | nsubj |
| 2 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shine | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 glass | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glass | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shine | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glass | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 shine | conj |
| 11 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 patch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 patch | det |
| 14 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patch | compound |
| 15 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | You | sunlight | a glass of water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | You not said here | at the rainbow patch; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at patch=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: What do you see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Exactly seven stripes with dark gaps between
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 seven | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stripes | nummod |
| 3 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gaps | case |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gaps | amod |
| 6 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stripes | nmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 gaps | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Colours blending smoothly into each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | blending | blend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Colours | acl |
| 3 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 2 blending | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 blending | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blend | gerund | Colours not said here | into each; smoothly property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into each=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Only red and blue, with nothing in between
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 red | advmod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 blue | cc |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 red | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 red | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | acl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 in | fixed |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A plain white light with no colours at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 colours | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 colours | det |
| 7 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 light | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 colours | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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