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title: Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow. Is tha… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, war… · tree and pragmatics
description: Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow. Is that a mistake? Test 9 · ★★ 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 choice was righ
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool

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Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow. Is that a mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Impressionist paintings · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** blue shadows, snow, mistake

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:1
# text = Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow.
1	Impressionist	impressionist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Impressionist paintings | blue shadows |  | snow |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shadow=Recipient |

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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:* Is that a mistake?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:2
# text = Is that a mistake?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, outdoor shadows often look blue or purple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:o1:1
# text = No, outdoor shadows often look blue or purple
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | outdoor shadows |  |  |  |  | blue, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, shadows are always black, everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:o2:1
# text = Yes, shadows are always black, everywhere
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, because the painters were all colour-blind and saw wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:o3:1
# text = No, because the painters were all colour-blind and saw wrong
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
8	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the painters |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the painters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, snow has no shadows at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, snow has no shadows at all
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | snow | no shadows |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |

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