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title: what color was that cat, like for real? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Secon… · tree and pragmatics
description: what color was that cat, like for real? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

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what color was that cat, like for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** color · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cat

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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/177-pg128-part17/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t13:1
# text = what color was that cat, like for real?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what color | that cat |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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grey and brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t13:o1:1
# text = grey and brown
1	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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black and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t13:o2:1
# text = black and white
1	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t13:o3:1
# text = white
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:177-pg128-part17:t13:o4:1
# text = black
1	black	black	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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