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title: Yo, what colour was that flower? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what colour was that flower? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1923 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins back Jorinde, and the King's daughter flees in a fur cloak to become a kitchen maid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins…

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Yo, what colour was that flower?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1923 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Allerleirauh, part 60: Joringel wins back Jorinde, and the King's daughter flees in a fur cloak to become a kitchen maid» 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/1923-pg7277-part60/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1923-pg7277-part60:t2:1
# text = Yo, what colour was that flower?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	flower	flower	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 | what colour | that flower |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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snow-white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1923-pg7277-part60:t2:o1:1
# text = snow-white
1	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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blood-red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1923-pg7277-part60:t2:o2:1
# text = blood-red
1	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	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 {#o3}

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pink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1923-pg7277-part60:t2:o3:1
# text = pink
1	pink	pink	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 blood-red shade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1923-pg7277-part60:t2:o4:1
# text = a dark blood-red shade
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shade	shade	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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