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title: Sus, what colour is that flower in the cupboard? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what colour is that flower in the cupboard? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

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Sus, what colour is that flower in the cupboard?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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/1789-pg641-part40/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t10:1
# text = Sus, what colour is that flower in the cupboard?
1	Sus	sus	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	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	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** | present | Sus and what colour | that flower |  | the cupboard |  |  | 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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Red with yellow edges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t10:o1:1
# text = Red with yellow edges
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pale white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t10:o2:1
# text = Pale white
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	white	white	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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Purple with silver rims

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t10:o3:1
# text = Purple with silver rims
1	Purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rims	rim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Orange with green edges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t10:o4:1
# text = Orange with green edges
1	Orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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