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title: when he was munching like a hoover, what colour was her hair? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: when he was munching like a hoover, what colour was her hair? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

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when he was munching like a hoover, what colour was her hair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he, colour · **What happens:** munch, be · **To what, where:** hair

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» 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/1401-pg500-part14/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t6:1
# text = when he was munching like a hoover, what colour was her hair?
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	munching	munch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hoover	hoover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  | like a hoover and her hair | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | what colour | her 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 {#o1}

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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t6:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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crimson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t6:o2:1
# text = crimson
1	crimson	crimson	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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t6:o3:1
# text = red
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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azure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t6:o4:1
# text = azure
1	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	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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