--- title: not sure if his jacket was blue or black — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: not sure if his jacket was blue or black Test 13 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday 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/everyday/18-remembering-details/t13/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/18-remembering-details/) / t13 # Test 13 · Remembering details not sure if his jacket was blue or black **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** jacket · **What happens:** be This is test 13 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday 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/everyday/18-remembering-details/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t13:1 # text = not sure if his jacket was blue or black 1 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | his jacket | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | his jacket *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Say both, to be safe ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t13:o1:1 # text = Say both, to be safe 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | both | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent both=Topic | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Say what the others said ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t13:o2:1 # text = Say what the others said 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Say you're not sure ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t13:o3:1 # text = Say you're not sure 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Pick blue to sound sure ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t13:o4:1 # text = Pick blue to sound sure 1 Pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | blue | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | **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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