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description: Mum says every coloured fruit and veg changes colour exactly like red cabbage. What's true? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 6 · ★ · Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow

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Mum says every coloured fruit and veg changes colour exactly like red cabbage. What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, veg · **What happens:** say, change, be · **To what, where:** coloured fruit, colour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum says every coloured fruit and veg changes colour exactly like red cabbage.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:1
# text = Mum says every coloured fruit and veg changes colour exactly like red cabbage.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	veg	veg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | every coloured fruit |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | present | veg | colour |  |  |  | like red cabbage | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only fruit, never vegetables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:o1:1
# text = Only fruit, never vegetables
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only green vegetables change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:o2:1
# text = Only green vegetables change
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | green vegetables |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yes, every plant colour is the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:o3:1
# text = Yes, every plant colour is the same
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every plant colour |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |

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

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Not all: beetroot behaves differently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow:t6:o4:1
# text = Not all: beetroot behaves differently
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	behaves	behave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | present | all beetroot |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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