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title: Ken whit colour the bull wis, pal? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Bla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ken whit colour the bull wis, pal? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

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Ken whit colour the bull wis, pal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» 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/238-pg14241-part5/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t1:1
# text = Ken whit colour the bull wis, pal?
1	Ken	Ken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	whit	whit	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pal	pal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t1:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t1:o2:1
# text = Black
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	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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Red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t1:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Dark brown like the peaty moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t1:o4:1
# text = Dark brown like the peaty moor
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	peaty	peaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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