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title: «brown is CHOrnyi innit, like dark» Which is right? — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: «brown is CHOrnyi innit, like dark» Which is right? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · The colours, and two kinds of blue

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«brown is CHOrnyi innit, like dark» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brown · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** CHOrnyi innit

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «The colours, and two kinds of blue» of the Ukrainian street 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/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t11:1
# text = «brown is CHOrnyi innit, like dark» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | brown | CHOrnyi innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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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No, brown is korYchnevyi; CHOrnyi is black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t11:o1:1
# text = No, brown is korYchnevyi; CHOrnyi is black
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	korYchnevyi	korYchnevyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | brown | korYchnevyi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | korYchnevyi |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, brown is CHOrnyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, brown is CHOrnyi
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brown is SIryi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t11:o3:1
# text = Brown is SIryi
1	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	SIryi	SIryi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Brown SIryi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brown is rOzhevyi, a bit like pink and red mixed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t11:o4:1
# text = Brown is rOzhevyi, a bit like pink and red mixed
1	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rOzhevyi	rOzhevyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Brown rOzhevyi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | Brown rOzhevyi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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