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title: Bro, what colour was that hen that laid the gold eggs? — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what colour was that hen that laid the gold eggs? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 6 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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Bro, what colour was that hen that laid the gold eggs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, hen · **What happens:** be, lay · **To what, where:** hen, gold eggs

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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/1536-pg540-part33/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t6:1
# text = Bro, what colour was that hen that laid the gold eggs?
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	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | hen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | hen | the gold eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

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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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black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t6:o1:1
# text = black
1	black	black	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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golden brown with spots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t6:o2:1
# text = golden brown with spots
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t6:o3:1
# text = brown
1	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a dark speckled brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t6:o4:1
# text = a dark speckled brown
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	speckled	speckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speckle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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