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title: Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky". What's r… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics
description: Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky". What's really glowing? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Colours of fire: fireworks

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Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky". What's really glowing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oli · **What happens:** be, glow · **To what, where:** fire, sky

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:1
# text = Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky".
1	Oli	Oli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Oli | fire |  | the sky |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's really glowing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:2
# text = What's really glowing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Oxygen high up, hit by particles from the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:o1:1
# text = Oxygen high up, hit by particles from the Sun
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	particles	particle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | participle |  | Oxygen *not said here* |  | the Sun |  | by particles | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Gas from volcanoes on fire in the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:o2:1
# text = Gas from volcanoes on fire in the sky
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Forests burning far away in the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:o3:1
# text = Forests burning far away in the north
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund | Forests *not said here* |  |  | the north |  | away *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Green moonlight bouncing off the ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:26-colours-of-fire-fireworks:t8:o4:1
# text = Green moonlight bouncing off the ice
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	bouncing	bounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce off** | gerund | Green moonlight *not said here* | the ice |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Agent |

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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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