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title: Fr, what color was Glinda's dress? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what color was Glinda's dress? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home…

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Fr, what color was Glinda's dress?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** color · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dress

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1611 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Glinda sends Dorothy home to Aunt Em» 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/1611-pg55-part26/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t2:1
# text = Fr, what color was Glinda's dress?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what color | Glinda's dress |  |  |  |  | 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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pure white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t2:o1:1
# text = pure white
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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pale blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t2:o2:1
# text = pale blue
1	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	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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silver grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1611-pg55-part26:t2:o3:1
# text = silver grey
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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:1611-pg55-part26:t2: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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