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title: Bruv, what colour was the duck's body? — Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Cova… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what colour was the duck's body? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

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Bruv, what colour was the duck's body?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bruv colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** body

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» 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/1185-pg3027-part51/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t5:1
# text = Bruv, what colour was the duck's body?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what Bruv colour | the duck's body |  |  |  |  | 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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Green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t5:o1:1
# text = Green
1	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 {#o2}

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Bright emerald green with a grey patch on the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t5:o2:1
# text = Bright emerald green with a grey patch on the back
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dark blue-green with pale speckles along its sides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t5:o3:1
# text = Dark blue-green with pale speckles along its sides
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speckles	speckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t5:o4:1
# text = Black
1	Black	Black	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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