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title: fr, what colour was the sea sometimes? — Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tea… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what colour was the sea sometimes? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 830 «Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tears, part 41: a stray girl becomes a sister, then the father dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 6 · ★ · Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tears, part 41: a stray…

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fr, what colour was the sea sometimes?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 830 «Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tears, part 41: a stray girl becomes a sister, then the father dies» 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/830-pg27200-part41/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:830-pg27200-part41:t6:1
# text = fr, what colour was the sea sometimes?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 and what colour | the sea |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | 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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:830-pg27200-part41:t6: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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grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:830-pg27200-part41:t6:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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dark green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:830-pg27200-part41:t6:o3:1
# text = dark green
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:830-pg27200-part41:t6:o4:1
# text = blue
1	blue	blue	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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