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Test 9 · ★★★ · The colours, and two kinds of blue

A Ukrainian kid calls a light-blue and a dark-blue pencil «two different colours». Why is that sensible in his language?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukrainian kid · What happens: call, be · To what, where: blue, language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: A Ukrainian kid calls a light-blue and a dark-blue pencil «two different colours».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	nsubj
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blue	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blue	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 blue	punct
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 calls	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pencil	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pencil	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blue	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pencil	amod
14	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blue	conj
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 colours	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 colours	nummod
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 colours	amod
18	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 calls	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 colours	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a Ukrainian kid	a blue and a blue pencil					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent blue=Theme colour=Result

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: Why is that sensible in his language?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sensible	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sensible	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 sensible	mark
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 language	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 language	nmod:poss
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sensible	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sensible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				kid's language		sensible property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Because SYniy and blakYtnyi are separate basic words, like red and pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 SYniy	case
2	SYniy	SYniy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 words	cc
4	blakYtnyi	blakYtnyi	X	Foreign=Yes	8 words	compound
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 words	cop
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
7	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 SYniy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 red	case
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pink	cc
13	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		blakYtnyi separate basic words					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because blue is not a colour in Ukrainian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 colour	mark
2	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colour	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 colour	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ukrainian	case
8	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	blue	a colour		Ukrainian			tree rules

Option 3

Because the pencils are different brands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 pencils	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pencils	det
3	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brands	obl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brands	cop
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brands	amod
6	brands	brand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		different brands				because the pencils	tree rules

Option 4

Because he is colour-blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 colour	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 colour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
4	colour	colour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 blind	punct
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					colour property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						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.

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