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title: ngl, what kinda hair did the boy have? — Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what kinda hair did the boy have? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1458 «Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wicked King to stone» 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 was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wick…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl, what kinda hair did the boy have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** have

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1458 «Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wicked King to stone» 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/1458-pg503-part45/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1458-pg503-part45:t7:1
# text = ngl, what kinda hair did the boy have?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	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 | **have** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
short curly yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1458-pg503-part45:t7:o1:1
# text = short curly yellow
1	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
short curly black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1458-pg503-part45:t7:o2:1
# text = short curly black
1	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
thick dark curls that fell over his forehead and eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1458-pg503-part45:t7:o3:1
# text = thick dark curls that fell over his forehead and eyes
1	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | thick dark curls |  |  | his forehead and eyes |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over forehead=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
long flowing golden hair down past his shoulders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1458-pg503-part45:t7:o4:1
# text = long flowing golden hair down past his shoulders
1	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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