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title: Bro, what colour were the monkeys pulling the carriage? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what colour were the monkeys pulling the carriage? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

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Bro, what colour were the monkeys pulling the carriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, monkeys · **What happens:** be, pull · **To what, where:** monkeys, carriage

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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/1526-pg540-part23/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t10:1
# text = Bro, what colour were the monkeys pulling the carriage?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro and what colour | the monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | the monkeys *not said here* | the carriage |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |

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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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blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t10:o1:1
# text = blue
1	blue	blue	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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t10:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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bright turquoise blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t10:o3:1
# text = bright turquoise blue
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dark blue with silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1526-pg540-part23:t10:o4:1
# text = dark blue with silver
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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