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title: Was Frisk dead weird, like, what colour was he? — Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Pea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Frisk dead weird, like, what colour was he? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…

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Was Frisk dead weird, like, what colour was he?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» 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/1525-pg540-part22/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:t3:1
# text = Was Frisk dead weird, like, what colour was he?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Frisk |  |  |  |  | weird *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | he |  |  |  |  | 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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bright green all over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:t3:o1:1
# text = bright green all over
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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spotted green and brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:t3:o2:1
# text = spotted green and brown
1	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bright green all over with a red tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:t3:o3:1
# text = bright green all over with a red tail
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bright green all over, even his ears and nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:t3:o4:1
# text = bright green all over, even his ears and nose
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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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