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title: Which colour comes from structure, not pigment? — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Which colour comes from structure, not pigment? Test 8 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

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Which colour comes from structure, not pigment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** structure

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t8:1
# text = Which colour comes from structure, not pigment?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | which colour |  |  | structure and pigment |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from structure=Initial\_Location |

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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 {#o1}

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The orange of a carrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t8:o1:1
# text = The orange of a carrot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The rainbow shine on a peacock feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t8:o2:1
# text = The rainbow shine on a peacock feather
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The green of a leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t8:o3:1
# text = The green of a leaf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The red of a tomato

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t8:o4:1
# text = The red of a tomato
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	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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