Test 6 · ★★★ · The colours, and two kinds of blue
Sashko's sister holds up a crayon and asks «yakoho kOlyoru?». It's grass-coloured. What do you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, crayon, you · What happens: hold up, ask, be, say · To what, where: crayon, yakoho kOlyoru · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Sashko's sister holds up a crayon and asks «yakoho kOlyoru?».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sashko | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 holds | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crayon | det |
| 7 | crayon | crayon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asks | cc |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 holds | conj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 kOlyoru | punct |
| 11 | yakoho | yakoho | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 kOlyoru | flat:foreign |
| 12 | kOlyoru | kOlyoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 kOlyoru | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 kOlyoru | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | present | Sashko's sister | a crayon | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crayon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Sashko's sister not said here | yakoho kOlyoru | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kolyoru=Recipient |
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: It's grass-coloured.
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 | 5 coloured | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coloured | cop |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coloured | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 coloured | punct |
| 5 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coloured | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | crayon | coloured property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What do you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
zelEnoho
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zelEnoho | zelEnoho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
chervOnoho
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chervOnoho | chervOnoho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
BIloho
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BIloho | BIloho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
SYnyoho
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SYnyoho | SYnyoho | 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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