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title: Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy? Was the world ora… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy? Was the world orange?" Test 7 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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 7 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

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Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy? Was the world orange?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** world orange

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This is test 7 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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/world/126-in-the-olden-days/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:1
# text = Lily: "Why's this 1975 photo all orange and fuzzy?
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fuzzy	fuzzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Lily |  |  |  |  | all, orange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:* Was the world orange?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:2
# text = Was the world orange?"
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the world orange |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The film has faded with age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:o1:1
# text = The film has faded with age
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | present · perfect · passive |  | the film |  |  | with age |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with age=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Sun was redder in the 1970s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:o2:1
# text = The Sun was redder in the 1970s
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	redder	red	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Sun |  |  | the 1970s |  | red *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everything in 1975 was painted orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:o3:1
# text = Everything in 1975 was painted orange
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  | orange *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cameras then added orange on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:t7:o4:1
# text = Cameras then added orange on purpose
1	Cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Cameras | orange |  | purpose | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=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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