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title: Bro, what colour specs is that bald critic on about? — The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what colour specs is that bald critic on about? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 13 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

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Bro, what colour specs is that bald critic on about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bald critic

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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/2036-pg902-part6/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t13:1
# text = Bro, what colour specs is that bald critic on about?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	specs	spec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bro and colour specs | bald critic |  |  |  |  | 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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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t13:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t13:o2:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t13:o3:1
# text = Tan
1	Tan	Tan	PROPN	NNP	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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t13:o4:1
# 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.

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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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