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title: Mate, what colour was the first purse the negro handed over? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what colour was the first purse the negro handed over? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

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Mate, what colour was the first purse the negro handed over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, hand over · **To what, where:** first purse, negro

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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/1235-pg3282-part36/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t2:1
# text = Mate, what colour was the first purse the negro handed over?
1	Mate	mate	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	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	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 | Mate and what colour | the first purse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand over** | participle |  | the negro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t2:o1:1
# text = green
1	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t2:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t2:o3:1
# text = tan
1	tan	tan	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 emerald green silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1235-pg3282-part36:t2:o4:1
# text = bright emerald green silk
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	silk	silk	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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