Test 4 · ★★★ · The colours, and two kinds of blue
«the flag's yellow on top, blue at the bottom» Which is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bottom · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the Ukrainian street 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 | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flag | det |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yellow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 flag | case |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yellow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blue | punct |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yellow | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 bottom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottom | det |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blue | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 bottom | punct |
| 14 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 right | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bottom | 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
Yes, yellow on top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 yellow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yellow | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, blue on top and yellow below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 yellow | cc |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blue | conj |
| 8 | below | below | ADV | _ | 7 yellow | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It is green and yellow, like grass
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 | 3 green | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 green | cop |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 yellow | cc |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 green | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grass | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 green | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 4
It is blue on the left
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 | 3 blue | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blue | cop |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 left | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 left | det |
| 6 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the left | blue 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t4/