Test 3 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours
A green leaf is lit by sunlight. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sunlight · What happens: lit, be · To what, where: green leaf
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» of the world 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 green leaf is lit by sunlight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lit | aux:pass |
| 5 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sunlight | case |
| 7 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lit | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | present · passive | sunlight | a green leaf | 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.
Sentence 2: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It reflects mostly green light
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 reflects | nsubj |
| 2 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 green | advmod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflects | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | It | green light | tree rules |
Option 2
It turns all light into green paint
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 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 paint | case |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paint | amod |
| 7 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | all light | green paint | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent light=Theme into paint=Trajectory |
Option 3
It gives off its own green light
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 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 gives | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 light | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 light | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 light | amod |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give off | present | It | its own green light | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | light | its = it | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
It absorbs mostly green light
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 absorbs | nsubj |
| 2 | absorbs | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 green | advmod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 absorbs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | present | It | green light | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal light=Theme |
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