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title: A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, war… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white. What is wrong? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool

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A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, blind character · **What happens:** show, see, be · **To what, where:** blind character, world, black

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:1
# text = A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | a blind character |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent character=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** | present | a blind character | the world |  | black |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Most colour-blind people just mix up certain colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:o1:1
# text = Most colour-blind people just mix up certain colours
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | present | Most blind people | certain colours |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Colour-blind people see extra colours that others miss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:o2:1
# text = Colour-blind people see extra colours that others miss
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | blind people | extra colours |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
| 2 | **miss** | present | others | extra colours |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, that is how all colour blindness works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing, that is how all colour blindness works
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | all colour blindness |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Colour blindness doesn't exist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t4:o4:1
# text = Colour blindness doesn't exist
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | Colour blindness |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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