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title: Identify the colour customarily associated with good fortune and cel… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the colour customarily associated with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture. Exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Colours» of the Chinese street 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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# Exam question 1 · Colours

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Identify the colour customarily associated with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, associate · **To what, where:** colour

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Colours» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/chinese-street/8-colours/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:e1:1
# text = Identify the colour customarily associated with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the colour |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 2 | **associate** | participle |  | the colour *not said here* |  |  |  | with good fortune and celebration in Chinese culture; customarily *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with fortune=Co-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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:e1:o1:1
# text = Grey
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	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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Green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:e1:o2:1
# text = Green
1	Green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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:chinese-street:8-colours:e1: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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:8-colours:e1:o4:1
# 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.

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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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