Test 5 · Pencils, paper and school things

«magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magazines, colours · What happens: use, colour, be

This is test 5 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
2	magazines	magazine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 inks	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 million	det
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 inks	nummod
7	inks	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 colours	det
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 colours	nsubj
11	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 inks	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 colours	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 colours	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	use in a quote	present	magazines	like million inks	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	colour in a quote		magazines = magazine		tree rules
3	is	present	all colours	right property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About a million, one for each different shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 million	det
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 shade	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 shade	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shade	amod
9	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod

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

Option 2

Two inks, red and blue, mixed together by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 inks	nummod
2	inks	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 red	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 red	punct
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blue	cc
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mixed	punct
8	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 red	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 mixed	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle						by hand; together property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Just four inks in tiny dots make the colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 inks	nummod
3	inks	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dots	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dots	amod
6	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 inks	nmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colours	det
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	four inks in tiny dots	the colours					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product

Option 4

Only black ink, which the light makes look coloured

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 ink	advmod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ink	amod
3	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 makes	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ink	acl:relcl
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the light	black ink					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product
2	look	present	black ink					coloured property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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