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title: What colour robe was Fiordelisa wearing, then? — Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-m… · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour robe was Fiordelisa wearing, then? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more ni…

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What colour robe was Fiordelisa wearing, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour robe · **What happens:** wear

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» 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/1870-pg7277-part7/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1870-pg7277-part7:t9:1
# text = What colour robe was Fiordelisa wearing, then?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past · progressive | colour robe |  |  |  | then |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1870-pg7277-part7:t9:o1:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	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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Dark blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1870-pg7277-part7:t9:o2:1
# text = Dark blue
1	Dark	dark	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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White silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1870-pg7277-part7:t9:o3:1
# text = White silk
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silk	silk	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:1870-pg7277-part7:t9: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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