Test 7 · Mirrors, shadows and colours
You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter. What do you see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: shine, see · To what, where: white light, red filter
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 shine | nsubj |
| 2 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shine | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 filter | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 filter | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 filter | amod |
| 8 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shine | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filter | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 filter | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 filter | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 filter | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 filter | amod |
| 14 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filter | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | You | white light | a red filter and a green filter | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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.
Sentence 2: What do you see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bright yellow light like the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 light | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bright white light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Almost no light at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 light | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 light | det |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 light | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Red and green stripes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stripes | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 green | cc |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Red | conj |
| 4 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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