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title: What colour is the daytime sky seen from the Moon? — Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour is the daytime sky seen from the Moon? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 21 «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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 2 · ★ · Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky

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What colour is the daytime sky seen from the Moon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** daytime sky, Moon

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 21 «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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/physics/21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky:t2:1
# text = What colour is the daytime sky seen from the Moon?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	daytime	daytime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | what colour | the daytime sky |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  | the daytime sky *not said here* |  | the Moon |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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White, like a cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky:t2:o1:1
# text = White, like a cloud
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blue, just like on Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky:t2:o2:1
# text = Blue, just like on Earth
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	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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Red, like a sunset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky:t2:o3:1
# text = Red, like a sunset
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Black, because there is no air to scatter light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:21-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky:t2:o4:1
# text = Black, because there is no air to scatter light
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Black | no air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter** | to-infinitive |  | light |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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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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