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title: Why is a bruise first purple? — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a bruise first purple? Test 11 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» of the medicine 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 11 · Sprains, strains and bruises

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Why is a bruise first purple?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bruise first purple

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This is test 11 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» of the medicine 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/medicine/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t11:1
# text = Why is a bruise first purple?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a bruise first purple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It is fresh blood under the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t11:o1:1
# text = It is fresh blood under the skin
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | fresh blood |  | the skin |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is dye soaked in from your clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t11:o2:1
# text = It is dye soaked in from your clothes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | dye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soak in** | participle |  | dye *not said here* |  | your clothes |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from clothes=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is a patch of dead skin on the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t11:o3:1
# text = It is a patch of dead skin on the top
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a patch |  | the top |  | of dead skin | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is the bone showing through the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t11:o4:1
# text = It is the bone showing through the skin
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | the bone *not said here* |  |  | the skin |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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