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title: yo what colour was the bull, like for real — Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo what colour was the bull, like for real Test 1 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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 rig
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# Test 1 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…

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yo what colour was the bull, like for real

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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/2055-pg976-part14/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t1:1
# text = yo what colour was the bull, like for real
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | the bull |  |  |  | like real | 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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snow-white, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t1:o1:1
# text = snow-white, fr
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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pure white, ngl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t1:o2:1
# text = pure white, ngl
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ngl	ngl	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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snowy, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t1:o3:1
# text = snowy, no cap
1	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	cap	cap	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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white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t1:o4:1
# text = white
1	white	white	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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