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title: Dude, what colour was the dream-boy's hair? — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what colour was the dream-boy's hair? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

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Dude, what colour was the dream-boy's hair?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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/1299-pg3454-part24/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t1:1
# text = Dude, what colour was the dream-boy's hair?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dude and what colour | the dream boy's hair |  |  |  |  | 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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fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t1:o1:1
# text = fair
1	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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blond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t1:o2:1
# text = blond
1	blond	blond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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golden and curly like the summer wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t1:o3:1
# text = golden and curly like the summer wheat
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very light brown and wavy like sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:t1:o4:1
# text = very light brown and wavy like sand
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wavy	wavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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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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