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title: If there were no air around the Earth, what colour would the daytime… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: If there were no air around the Earth, what colour would the daytime sky look? Test 9 · ★ 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.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

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If there were no air around the Earth, what colour would the daytime sky look?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** air · **What happens:** be, look

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t9:1
# text = If there were no air around the Earth, what colour would the daytime sky look?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
11	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	daytime	daytime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no air around the Earth *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | would | no air around the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |

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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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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t9:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t9: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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White

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t9:o3:1
# text = White
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t9:o4:1
# text = Black
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	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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