Test 4 · ★ · Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky
In a cartoon a leprechaun hides gold where the rainbow touches the ground. Why could you never get there?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: leprechaun, rainbow, you · What happens: hide, touch, not get · To what, where: gold, cartoon, ground
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 21 «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» 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: In a cartoon a leprechaun hides gold where the rainbow touches the ground.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leprechaun | det |
| 5 | leprechaun | leprechaun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | nsubj |
| 6 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hides | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 touches | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rainbow | det |
| 10 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touches | nsubj |
| 11 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gold | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touches | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hides | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a leprechaun | gold | a cartoon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Patient in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | touch | present | the rainbow | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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 could you never get there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1
It is always in another country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 country | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | another country | always property | tree rules |
Option 2
The leprechaun moves it to a new place every night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leprechaun | det |
| 2 | leprechaun | leprechaun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moves | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the leprechaun | it | a new place | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The rainbow moves as you move and has no fixed end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rainbow | det |
| 2 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 move | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 move | nsubj |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 has | cc |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 end | det |
| 10 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 end | amod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the rainbow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | present | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the rainbow not said here | no fixed end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The gold is invisible in daylight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invisible | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 invisible | cop |
| 4 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invisible | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the gold | daylight | invisible property | tree rules |
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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