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title: State the colour of the casket which the maiden selected upon the in… — pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the colour of the casket which the maiden selected upon the instruction of the cats. Exam question 1 of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 1 · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

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State the colour of the casket which the maiden selected upon the instruction of the cats.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** select, instruct · **To what, where:** maiden, cats

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1151-pg3027-part17/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:e1:1
# text = State the colour of the casket which the maiden selected upon the instruction of the cats.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | participle |  | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the instruction of the cats | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **instruct** |  |  | the cats |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:e1:o1:1
# text = Red
1	Red	red	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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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:e1:o2:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:e1:o3:1
# text = Black
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	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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White

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:e1:o4:1
# text = White
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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