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title: Bro, what colour was the lion? — Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what colour was the lion? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…

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Bro, what colour was the lion?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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/1918-pg7277-part55/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:t12:1
# text = Bro, what colour was the lion?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	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 lion |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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golden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:t12:o1:1
# text = golden
1	golden	golden	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:1918-pg7277-part55:t12: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:t12:o3:1
# text = green
1	green	green	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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silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:t12:o4:1
# text = silver
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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