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title: Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky. Which word fits b… — The colours, and two kinds of blue · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky. Which word fits best? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 3 · ★★★ · The colours, and two kinds of blue

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Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky. Which word fits best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** T shirt, word · **What happens:** be, fit

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:1
# text = Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your friend's T shirt |  |  |  |  | like the summer sky; pale *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which word fits best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:2
# text = Which word fits best?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | which word |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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CHOrnyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:o1:1
# text = CHOrnyi
1	CHOrnyi	CHOrnyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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blakYtnyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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SYniy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:o3:1
# text = SYniy
1	SYniy	SYniy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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korYchnevyi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue:t3:o4:1
# 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.

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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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