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title: ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you write "a leaf" of that colour? (A leaf is une feuille.) Test 12 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 right
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# Test 12 · Colours

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★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour. How do you write "a leaf" of that colour? (A leaf is une feuille.)

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ Blue paint, you, leaf · **What happens:** mix, make, write, be · **To what, where:** new colour, leaf, une feuille

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This is test 12 of lesson 9 «Colours» of the French 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/french/9-colours/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:1
# text = ★★★ Blue paint and yellow paint mixed make a new colour.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	csubj:pass	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | ★ Blue paint and yellow paint | a new colour |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How do you write "a leaf" of that colour?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:2
# text = How do you write "a leaf" of that colour?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · do-support | you | a leaf of that colour |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* (A leaf is une feuille.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:3
# text = (A leaf is une feuille.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	une	une	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	feuille	feuille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a leaf | une feuille |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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une feuille verte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:o1:1
# text = une feuille verte
1	une	une	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	feuille	feuille	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	verte	verte	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 feuille verte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:o2:1
# text = un feuille verte
1	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	feuille	feuille	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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une verte feuille

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:o3:1
# text = une verte feuille
1	une	une	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	feuille	feuille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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une feuille vert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:9-colours:t12:o4:1
# text = une feuille vert
1	une	une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	feuille	feuille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	vert	vert	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
```

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

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