--- title: A cartoon octopus takes an hour to change colour. What's more true? — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics description: A cartoon octopus takes an hour to change colour. What's more true? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/t7/) [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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/) / [Leaves, fruit and colour in nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature A cartoon octopus takes an hour to change colour. What's more true? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon octopus · **What happens:** take, change, be · **To what, where:** colour This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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/28-colour-in-nature/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon octopus takes an hour to change colour. ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:1 # text = A cartoon octopus takes an hour to change colour. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a cartoon octopus | | | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | a cartoon octopus *not said here* | colour | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's more true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:2 # text = What's more true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Some can change in less than a second ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:o1:1 # text = Some can change in less than a second 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 8 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | can | Some | | | | second | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} They change only by eating coloured food ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:o2:1 # text = They change only by eating coloured food 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | They | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | They *not said here* | coloured food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} They change only when they are fast asleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:o3:1 # text = They change only when they are fast asleep 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | They | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | they | | | | | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Octopuses cannot really change colour at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t7:o4:1 # text = Octopuses cannot really change colour at all 1 Octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **change** | can | Octopuses | colour | | all | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | **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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