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title: fr what colour was her silky boot? — A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr what colour was her silky boot? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 4 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

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fr what colour was her silky boot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** silky boot

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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/818-pg27200-part29/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t4:1
# text = fr what colour was her silky boot?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fr | her silky boot |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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chestnut brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = chestnut brown
1	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dark violet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = dark violet
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a deep reddish brown of polished leather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = a deep reddish brown of polished leather
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the shade of old burnt sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = the shade of old burnt sugar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shade** |  |  | old burnt sugar |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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