Test 13 · Mirrors, shadows and colours

my mate reckons a red filter turns all light red. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, red filter · What happens: reckon, turn · To what, where: all

This is test 13 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 filter	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 filter	amod
6	filter	filter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 turns	obj
9	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 red	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 all	flat
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	present	a red filter	all					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent all=Theme

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

No, it lets every colour through except red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 red	case
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 red	case
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	it	every colour		red			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it lets only red light through and blocks the other colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obj
8	through	through	ADV	_	4 lets	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blocks	cc
10	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lets	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colours	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colours	amod
13	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	it	red light				through property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	block	present		the other colours					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer colour=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only white light turns red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 turns	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	white light					red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, it paints every colour red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 paints	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paints	nsubj
4	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paints	obj
7	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	it	every colour					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Destination

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