Exam question 3 · The colours, and two kinds of blue

Identify the derivation of the colour term pomarAnchevyi.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: derivation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 derivation	det
3	derivation	derivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 term	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 term	compound
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 derivation	nmod
8	pomarAnchevyi	pomarAnchevyi	X	Foreign=Yes	7 term	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the derivation of the colour term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent derivation=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

From the word for tomato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 tomato	case
5	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod

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

Option 2

From a French word for apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 apple	case
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From pomarAncha, an older word for the orange fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 pomarAncha	case
2	pomarAncha	pomarAncha	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pomarAncha	appos
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fruit	det
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fruit	amod
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod

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

Option 4

From the name of a breed of small fluffy dog from Pomerania

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 breed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 breed	det
6	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 name	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 dog	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
9	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breed	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Pomerania	case
12	Pomerania	Pomerania	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			a breed of small fluffy dog from Pomerania					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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