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title: What colour did the crystal cup become when false lips touched it? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour did the crystal cup become when false lips touched it? Exam question 2 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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What colour did the crystal cup become when false lips touched it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour, crystal cup, false lips · **What happens:** do, become, touch · **To what, where:** cup

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» 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/2039-pg902-part9/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e2:1
# text = What colour did the crystal cup become when false lips touched it?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what colour |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present | the crystal cup |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | past | false lips | cup |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |

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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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e2: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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Silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e2:o2:1
# text = Silver
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e2:o3:1
# text = Grey
1	Grey	grey	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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Yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e2:o4:1
# 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.

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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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