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title: what colour are the clothes of a wisp who wins, be honest? — Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp… · tree and pragmatics
description: what colour are the clothes of a wisp who wins, be honest? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

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what colour are the clothes of a wisp who wins, be honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour, wisp, clothes · **What happens:** be, win · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» of the books 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/books/1026-pg27200-part237/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t6:1
# text = what colour are the clothes of a wisp who wins, be honest?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wisp	wisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | what colour | the clothes |  |  |  | of a wisp | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | present | a wisp |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the clothes |  |  |  |  | honest *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 {#o1}

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Deep marsh green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t6:o1:1
# text = Deep marsh green
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fiery yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t6:o2:1
# text = Fiery yellow
1	Fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t6:o3:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	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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Pale silver blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t6:o4:1
# text = Pale silver blue
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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