Exam question 4 · The colours, and two kinds of blue
Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, obtain, admix · To what, where: colour, BIlyi
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colour | det |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 colour | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 admixture | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 admixture | det |
| 7 | admixture | admixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtained | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 BIlyi | case |
| 9 | BIlyi | BIlyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 admixture | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paint | cc |
| 11 | CHOrnyi | CHOrnyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 paint | compound |
| 12 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 BIlyi | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 measure | case |
| 14 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 measure | amod |
| 15 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paint | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the colour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obtain | participle | the colour not said here | by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | admix | BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure | nom admixture «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
korYchnevyi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | korYchnevyi | korYchnevyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
rOzhevyi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rOzhevyi | rOzhevyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
blakYtnyi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blakYtnyi | blakYtnyi | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
SIryi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SIryi | SIryi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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