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title: Bare proper, what colour's the silk over his seat? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare proper, what colour's the silk over his seat? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

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Bare proper, what colour's the silk over his seat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** proper silk, seat

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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/1324-pg3454-part49/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t3:1
# text = Bare proper, what colour's the silk over his seat?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | what colour | the proper silk |  | his seat |  |  | 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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Emerald green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t3:o1:1
# text = Emerald green
1	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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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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Flame-coloured

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t3:o2:1
# text = Flame-coloured
1	Flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	coloured	coloured	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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t3:o3:1
# 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 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t3:o4:1
# 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.

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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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