--- title: Identify the colour properly ascribed to the skin of the polar bear. — Where did you read that? Checking sour… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the colour properly ascribed to the skin of the polar bear. Exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/e2/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Where did you read that? Checking sour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Where did you read that? Checking sources Identify the colour properly ascribed to the skin of the polar bear. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, ascribe · **To what, where:** colour This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources:e2:1 # text = Identify the colour properly ascribed to the skin of the polar bear. 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 properly properly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ascribed ascribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **ascribe** | participle | | the colour *not said here* | | | | to the skin of the polar bear; properly *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Black ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources:e2:o1:1 # text = Black 1 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Transparent ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources:e2:o2:1 # text = Transparent 1 Transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} White ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources:e2:o3:1 # text = White 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Pink ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources:e2:o4:1 # text = Pink 1 Pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/e1/) - next →: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/e3/) - ↑ back to [Where did you read that? Checking sources](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/)