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title: Was the bird's feathers sky-blue and gold, or just mad green? — The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the bird's feathers sky-blue and gold, or just mad green? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 2 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

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Was the bird's feathers sky-blue and gold, or just mad green?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feathers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sky blue

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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/1689-pg640-part13/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t2:1
# text = Was the bird's feathers sky-blue and gold, or just mad green?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bird's feathers | sky blue and gold |  |  |  |  | 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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Bright purple and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t2:o1:1
# text = Bright purple and white
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t2:o2:1
# text = Just gold
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t2:o3:1
# text = Green
1	Green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sky-blue and gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t2:o4:1
# text = Sky-blue and gold
1	Sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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