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title: Which colour of footwear did the child wear to the ceremony of confi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which colour of footwear did the child wear to the ceremony of confirmation? Exam question 1 of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

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Which colour of footwear did the child wear to the ceremony of confirmation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** wear

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/957-pg27200-part168/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:e1:1
# text = Which colour of footwear did the child wear to the ceremony of confirmation?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	footwear	footwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past · do-support | which colour of footwear |  |  |  |  | to the ceremony of confirmation | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:e1:o1:1
# text = Tan
1	Tan	Tan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:e1:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:e1:o3:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	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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Jet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:e1:o4:1
# text = Jet
1	Jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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