Test 3 · ★ · Pets and farm animals
You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass. Which colour is best for him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, ball, colour · What happens: want, buy, be, spot · To what, where: ball, dog, green grass
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 7 «Pets and farm animals» 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 want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 buy | mark |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| 7 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | appos |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 easy | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easy | cop |
| 12 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ball | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spot | mark |
| 14 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 easy | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 grass | case |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grass | amod |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spot | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a ball | your dog | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary ball=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | a ball | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spot | to-infinitive | a ball not said here | green grass | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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: Which colour is best for him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 best | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which colour | for Max; good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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