Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / World / Light, shadows and colours / t7

Test 7 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours

A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops. What does it show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rainbow, sunlight · What happens: appear, shine, show · To what, where: raindrops

This is test 7 · ★ 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 rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rainbow	det
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appears	nsubj
3	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 shines	advmod
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shines	nsubj
6	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appears	advcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 raindrops	case
8	raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shines	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	a rainbow						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	present	sunlight			raindrops			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through raindrop=Location

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: What does it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	sunlight						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Clouds add colour to the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 add	nsubj
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Clouds	colour				to the light	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient to light=Co-Patient

Option 2

The Sun is many colours at different times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 colours	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colours	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colours	amod
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	many colours			time		tree rules

Option 3

Raindrops are painted in colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 colours	case
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive		Raindrops		colours			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in colour=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

White light contains all the colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 light	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contains	nsubj
3	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 colours	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colours	det
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	White light	all colours					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

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/world/53-light/t7/