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title: What was the colour of the shoes worn by Karen at her confirmation? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the colour of the shoes worn by Karen at her confirmation? Exam question 1 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

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What was the colour of the shoes worn by Karen at her confirmation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** be, wear, confirm · **To what, where:** colour, shoes, confirmation

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e1:1
# text = What was the colour of the shoes worn by Karen at her confirmation?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the colour |  |  |  | of the shoes | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  | the shoes *not said here* |  | Karen's confirmation |  | by Karen | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at confirmation=Source |
| 3 | **confirm** |  | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | nom confirmation «cognition 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 {#o1}

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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e1:o1:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	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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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e1:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e1:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Jet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e1: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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