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title: Wot colour is the lucky posh colour in the China temple? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot colour is the lucky posh colour in the China temple? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Wot colour is the lucky posh colour in the China temple?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lucky posh colour, China temple

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t2:1
# text = Wot colour is the lucky posh colour in the China temple?
1	Wot	wot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wot colour | the lucky posh colour |  | the China temple |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t2:o1:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the gold of the posh temple roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t2:o2:1
# text = the gold of the posh temple roof
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the red of the fancy lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t2:o3:1
# text = the red of the fancy lanterns
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t2:o4:1
# text = yellow
1	yellow	yellow	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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