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title: Sheesh, what colour were the roses by the sun-dial? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheesh, what colour were the roses by the sun-dial? Test 8 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

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Sheesh, what colour were the roses by the sun-dial?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** roses

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t8:1
# text = Sheesh, what colour were the roses by the sun-dial?
1	Sheesh	sheesh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	dial	dial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | the roses |  |  |  | by the sun dial | 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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t8: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t8:o2:1
# text = Yellow
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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White

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t8: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 {#o4}

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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t8:o4:1
# 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.

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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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