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Test 4 · Light and shadows

Under a blue lamp at a party, your red top looks almost black. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red top · What happens: look

This is test 4 of lesson 20 «Light and shadows» of the physics 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: Under a blue lamp at a party, your red top looks almost black.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	4 lamp	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lamp	amod
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looks	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 party	det
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lamp	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lamp	punct
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 top	nmod:poss
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 top	amod
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looks	nsubj
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 black	advmod
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looks	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	your red top					under a blue lamp at a party; black property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under lamp=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?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

There is no red light for it to bounce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 light	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 bounce	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bounce	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bounce	mark
9	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no red light			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bounce	to-infinitive	light						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The top has gone cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	the top					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Blue light dyes the cloth black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 light	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dyes	nsubj
3	dyes	dye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dyes	obj
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dyes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dye	present	Blue light	the cloth				black property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient

Option 4

Your eyes stop working under blue light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Your eyes						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	Your eyes not said here			blue light			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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