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title: Proper, what colour was the glow off the fires, mate? — Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper, what colour was the glow off the fires, mate? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

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Proper, what colour was the glow off the fires, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** glow

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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/1157-pg3027-part23/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t4:1
# text = Proper, what colour was the glow off the fires, mate?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | the glow |  |  |  | off the fires and mate; properly *property* | 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 {#o1}

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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t4:o1:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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soft pink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t4:o2:1
# text = soft pink
1	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a bright golden orange glow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t4:o3:1
# text = a bright golden orange glow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	glow	glow	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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a deep rosy red colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t4:o4:1
# text = a deep rosy red colour
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colour	colour	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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