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title: Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure. Exam question 4 of lesson 10 «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Exam question 4 · The colours, and two kinds of blue

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Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, obtain, admix · **To what, where:** colour, BIlyi

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 10 «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the Ukrainian street 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/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	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	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	admixture	admixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	BIlyi	BIlyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the colour |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic |
| 2 | **obtain** | participle |  | the colour *not said here* |  |  |  | by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **admix** |  |  | BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure |  |  |  |  | nom admixture «state 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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korYchnevyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:e4:o1:1
# text = korYchnevyi
1	korYchnevyi	korYchnevyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rOzhevyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:e4:o2:1
# text = rOzhevyi
1	rOzhevyi	rOzhevyi	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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blakYtnyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:e4:o3:1
# text = blakYtnyi
1	blakYtnyi	blakYtnyi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	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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SIryi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:e4:o4:1
# text = SIryi
1	SIryi	SIryi	PROPN	NNP	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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