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title: from the sky, what color was that strip of Egypt? — Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga be… · tree and pragmatics
description: from the sky, what color was that strip of Egypt? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

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from the sky, what color was that strip of Egypt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** color · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** strip, sky

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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/895-pg27200-part106/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t13:1
# text = from the sky, what color was that strip of Egypt?
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what color | strip |  | the sky |  | of Egypt | 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 {#o1}

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a strip of golden sand with green fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t13:o1:1
# text = a strip of golden sand with green fields
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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golden, like a ribbon laid along the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t13:o2:1
# text = golden, like a ribbon laid along the river
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | participle |  | a golden ribbon *not said here* |  | the river |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent along river=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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golden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t13:o3:1
# text = golden
1	golden	golden	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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dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t13:o4:1
# text = dark
1	dark	dark	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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