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title: You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green… — Mirrors, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics
description: You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter. What do you see? Test 7 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · Mirrors, shadows and colours

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You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter. What do you see?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** shine, see · **To what, where:** white light, red filter

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This is test 7 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:1
# text = You shine white light through a red filter and then through a green filter.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | present | You | white light |  | a red filter and a green filter |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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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:* What do you see?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:2
# text = What do you see?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bright yellow light like the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:o1:1
# text = Bright yellow light like the Sun
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bright white light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:o2:1
# text = Bright white light
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Almost no light at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:o3:1
# text = Almost no light at all
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Red and green stripes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:84-mirrors-shadows-colours:t7:o4:1
# text = Red and green stripes
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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