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title: Fr, what colour were the evening skies, like totally gold? — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what colour were the evening skies, like totally gold? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

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Fr, what colour were the evening skies, like totally gold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** evening skies

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» of the books 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/books/1032-pg27200-part243/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t10:1
# text = Fr, what colour were the evening skies, like totally gold?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fr and what colour | the evening skies and gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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pale blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t10:o1:1
# text = pale blue
1	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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gold streaked with pink and blue at the edges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t10:o2:1
# text = gold streaked with pink and blue at the edges
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	streaked	streak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **streak** | participle |  | gold *not said here* |  | the edges |  | with pink | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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shiny gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t10:o3:1
# text = shiny gold
1	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bright silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t10:o4:1
# text = bright silver
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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