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title: Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes? — Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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 wa
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# Test 5 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

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Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** odd colour · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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/239-pg14241-part6/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t5:1
# text = Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | what odd colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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dark green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t5:o1:1
# text = dark green
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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 2 {#o2}

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blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t5:o2:1
# text = blue
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	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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black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t5:o3:1
# text = black
1	black	black	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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:239-pg14241-part6:t5: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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