--- title: Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appeara… — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics description: Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appearance? Exam question 1 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must w… Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appearance? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** gown This is exam question 1 of lesson 649 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone» 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/649-pg23661-part17/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e1:1 # text = Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appearance? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which colour | the gown | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wear** | participle | | the gown *not said here* | | | | by the Princess upon Princess's first appearance | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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} Yellow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e1:o1:1 # text = Yellow 1 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Red ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e1:o2:1 # text = Red 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Green ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e1:o3:1 # text = Green 1 Green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tan ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:649-pg23661-part17:e1:o4:1 # text = Tan 1 Tan Tan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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