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title: Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arr… — Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arrival? Exam question 1 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

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Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arrival?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be, arrive

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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/772-pg2591-part48/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e1:1
# text = Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arrival?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
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	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | which colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | colour |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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 {#o1}

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White

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e1:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Jet black with silver trim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e1:o2:1
# text = Jet black with silver trim
1	Jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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Black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e1:o3:1
# text = Black
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Dark grey with a gilded carriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e1:o4:1
# text = Dark grey with a gilded carriage
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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