Test 3 · Mirrors, shadows and colours

Which is true about rainbows?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 rainbows	case
5	rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about rainbows; true property	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.

The options

Option 1

You see one when you look straight at the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 see	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 look	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	look	present	you					at the Sun; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme

Option 2

Every rainbow has its colours in a new order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rainbow	det
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 colours	nmod:poss
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 order	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 order	amod
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every rainbow	rainbow's colours		a new order			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You see one when you face away from the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 see	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 face	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 face	nsubj
6	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 face	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	face	present	you					away property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Rainbows only appear when there is no rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appear	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 appear	advmod
3	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appear	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Rainbows						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	no rain			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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