Test 5 · ★ · Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows
Why is a rainbow called "veselka"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rainbow · What happens: be, call · To what, where: rainbow, veselka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 23 «Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rainbow | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rainbow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rainbow | det |
| 4 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rainbow | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 veselka | punct |
| 7 | veselka | veselka | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 veselka | punct |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rainbow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rainbow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | a rainbow not said here | veselka | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent veselka=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It means "bridge in the sky"
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bridge | punct |
| 4 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bridge | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bridge | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | bridge | in the sky | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bridge=Theme in sky=Attribute |
Option 2
It means "seven colours"
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 colours | punct |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 colours | nummod |
| 5 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 means | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 colours | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | seven colours | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is linked to veselyi, cheerful
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 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 linked | aux:pass |
| 3 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 veselyi | case |
| 5 | veselyi | veselyi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 linked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheerful | punct |
| 7 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 veselyi | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | present · passive | It | to veselyi | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to veselyi=Co-Patient |
Option 4
It comes from a word for rain
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 | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 word | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 rain | case |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | It | a word for rain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location |
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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