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title: What colour cloak did the people make for the Brownie, sick? — English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Tabl… · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour cloak did the people make for the Brownie, sick? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

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What colour cloak did the people make for the Brownie, sick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour cloak, people · **What happens:** do, make

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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/1973-pg7439-part32/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t11:1
# text = What colour cloak did the people make for the Brownie, sick?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | colour cloak |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | for the Brownie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for brownie=Beneficiary |

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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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Bright yellow cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t11:o1:1
# text = Bright yellow cloth
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t11:o2:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	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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Lincoln green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t11:o3:1
# text = Lincoln green
1	Lincoln	lincoln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	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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Dark brown wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t11:o4:1
# text = Dark brown wool
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wool	wool	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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