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title: What was the name signifying the colour of the dog? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the name signifying the colour of the dog? Exam question 1 of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

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What was the name signifying the colour of the dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** name · **What happens:** be, signify · **To what, where:** colour

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» 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/1369-pg4018-part29/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:e1:1
# text = What was the name signifying the colour of the dog?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund | the name *not said here* | the colour of the dog |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme |

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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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golden-brown with a white chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:e1:o1:1
# text = golden-brown with a white chest
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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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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white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:e1:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pure snow-white like the winter fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:e1:o3:1
# text = pure snow-white like the winter fields
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:e1:o4:1
# 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.

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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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