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title: Which colour of rose is specified by the Student as the requirement… — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which colour of rose is specified by the Student as the requirement for his beloved's dance? Exam question 3 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» of the books course of Mova's
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# Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

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Which colour of rose is specified by the Student as the requirement for his beloved's dance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Student, beloved · **What happens:** specify, dance · **To what, where:** colour

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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/2033-pg902-part3/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e3:1
# text = Which colour of rose is specified by the Student as the requirement for his beloved's dance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	specified	specify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Student	Student	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	requirement	requirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | present · passive | the Student | which colour of rose |  |  |  | as the requirement for Student's beloved's dance | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as requirement=Attribute |
| 2 | **dance** |  | Student's beloved |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e3:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e3:o2:1
# text = Ox
1	Ox	ox	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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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e3:o3:1
# text = Tan
1	Tan	Tan	PROPN	NNP	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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Jet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e3:o4:1
# text = Jet
1	Jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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