--- title: bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again? — Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moo… · tree and pragmatics description: bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/903-pg27200-part114/t4/) [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/) / [Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/903-pg27200-part114/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:… bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** color This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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/903-pg27200-part114/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t4:1 # text = bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again? 1 bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 wrapper wrapper NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 10 det _ _ 10 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | color | | | | | tree rules | 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} Blue silk, always torn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t4:o1:1 # text = Blue silk, always torn 1 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tear** | participle | | Blue silk *not said here* | | | | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yellow satin, always new ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t4:o2:1 # text = Yellow satin, always new 1 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 satin satin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Green velvet, freshly washed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t4:o3:1 # text = Green velvet, freshly washed 1 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 freshly freshly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | participle | | Green velvet *not said here* | | | | freshly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Black wool ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t4:o4:1 # text = Black wool 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 wool wool NOUN NN 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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