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title: the flowers were so lit, right? what color were the poppies? — Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field,… · tree and pragmatics
description: the flowers were so lit, right? what color were the poppies? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts…

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the flowers were so lit, right? what color were the poppies?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** color · **What happens:** lit, be · **To what, where:** flowers, poppies

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1594 «Wizard of Oz, The Deadly Poppy Field, part 9: raft drifts off, Scarecrow stranded, Stork rescues him» 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/1594-pg55-part9/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t11:1
# text = the flowers were so lit, right? what color were the poppies?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | past · passive |  | the flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | what color | the poppies |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t11:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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scarlet, like a fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t11:o2:1
# text = scarlet, like a fire
1	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pink, like a rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t11:o3:1
# text = pink, like a rose
1	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1594-pg55-part9:t11:o4:1
# text = bright
1	bright	bright	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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