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title: Was the dragon wife's scale colour proper green? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the dragon wife's scale colour proper green? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

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Was the dragon wife's scale colour proper green?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** scale colour · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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/1370-pg4018-part30/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t11:1
# text = Was the dragon wife's scale colour proper green?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dragon wife's scale colour |  |  |  |  | green *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Glittering green like summer beetle wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t11:o1:1
# text = Glittering green like summer beetle wings
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | gerund |  | green |  |  |  | like beetle wings | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Glittering green like summer beetle wings with a silver shine underneath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t11:o2:1
# text = Glittering green like summer beetle wings with a silver shine underneath
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | gerund |  | green |  |  |  | like beetle wings; with a silver shine; underneath *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shimmering silver like autumn moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t11:o3:1
# text = Shimmering silver like autumn moonlight
1	Shimmering	shimmer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shimmer** | gerund |  | silver |  |  |  | like autumn moonlight | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Glittering green like summer beetle wings, with a silver shine underneath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t11:o4:1
# text = Glittering green like summer beetle wings, with a silver shine underneath
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | gerund |  | green |  |  |  | like beetle wings; with a silver shine | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme |

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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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