--- title: What colour were her feathers, fam? Like, were they actually gold? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Br… · tree and pragmatics description: What colour were her feathers, fam? Like, were they actually gold? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1663-pg5615-part52/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1663-pg5615-part52/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's… What colour were her feathers, fam? Like, were they actually gold? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour, feathers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** feathers, gold This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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/1663-pg5615-part52/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* What colour were her feathers, fam? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:1 # text = What colour were her feathers, fam? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | her feathers and fam | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Like, were they actually gold? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:2 # text = Like, were they actually gold? 1 Like like INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 actually actually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | feathers *= feather* | gold | | | | actually *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nah, they were actually silver but looked gold in the light ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:o1:1 # text = Nah, they were actually silver but looked gold in the light 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 actually actually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | actually, silver *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | past | they *not said here* | gold | | the light | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gold=Attribute | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, they were golden and shone like the sun in the morning ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:o2:1 # text = Yeah, they were golden and shone like the sun in the morning 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | they | | | | | golden *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shine** | participle | they *not said here* | | | | morning | like the sun | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Brown and grey, mostly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:o3:1 # text = Brown and grey, mostly 1 Brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Golden, loads of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1663-pg5615-part52:t12:o4:1 # text = Golden, loads of them 1 Golden golden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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