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title: What colour was the flower, like, on the weird plant Jem found? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour was the flower, like, on the weird plant Jem found? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

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What colour was the flower, like, on the weird plant Jem found?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** flower, weird plant Jem

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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/1792-pg641-part43/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t7:1
# text = What colour was the flower, like, on the weird plant Jem found?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Jem	jem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | the flower and the weird plant Jem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | the weird plant Jem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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a dark bright red like blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t7:o1:1
# text = a dark bright red like blood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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dark bright red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t7:o2:1
# text = dark bright red
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bright golden yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t7:o3:1
# text = bright golden yellow
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dark green speckled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t7:o4:1
# text = dark green speckled
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	speckled	speckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speckle** | participle |  | dark green *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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