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title: Which colour is the great wall that surrounds the City? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which colour is the great wall that surrounds the City? Exam question 1 of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 1 · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Em…

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Which colour is the great wall that surrounds the City?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour, great wall · **What happens:** be, surround · **To what, where:** great wall, City

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1597 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 12: they reach the Emerald City and wear green spectacles» 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/1597-pg55-part12/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e1:1
# text = Which colour is the great wall that surrounds the City?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	surrounds	surround	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which colour | the great wall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | present | the great wall | the City |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Co-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 {#o1}

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Pale silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e1:o1:1
# text = Pale silver
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silver	silver	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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Bright emerald green, covered in tiny glass jewels that sparkled in the sunshine all day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e1:o2:1
# text = Bright emerald green, covered in tiny glass jewels that sparkled in the sunshine all day
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | Bright emerald *not said here* |  |  | day | in tiny glass jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in jewel=Theme |
| 2 | **sparkle** | past | tiny glass jewels |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Bright green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e1:o3:1
# text = Bright green
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 green, and it was thick and tall with many golden gates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1597-pg55-part12:e1:o4:1
# text = Bright green, and it was thick and tall with many golden gates
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with many golden gates; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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