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title: Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse". — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse". Exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Colours» of the French 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 2 · Colours

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Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, render · **To what, where:** correct rendering, black mouse

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Colours» of the French 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/french/9-colours/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:e2:1
# text = Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 correct rendering of a black mouse |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme |
| 2 | **render** |  |  | a black mouse |  |  |  |  | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=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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une noire souris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:e2:o1:1
# text = une noire souris
1	une	une	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	noire	noire	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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un souris noire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:e2:o2:1
# text = un souris noire
1	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	noire	noire	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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une souris noir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:e2:o3:1
# text = une souris noir
1	une	une	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	noir	noir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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une souris noire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:e2:o4:1
# text = une souris noire
1	une	une	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	noire	noire	NOUN	NN	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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