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title: Hang on, what was on that rose-coloured paper? — Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hang on, what was on that rose-coloured paper? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

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Hang on, what was on that rose-coloured paper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang on, be · **To what, where:** coloured paper

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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/278-pg1597-part5/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t9:1
# text = Hang on, what was on that rose-coloured paper?
1	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
8	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | that coloured paper |  |  | 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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Some poem called Oh, Were I Rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t9:o1:1
# text = Some poem called Oh, Were I Rich
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Were	were	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Rich	Rich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | some poem  Rich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A map, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t9:o2:1
# text = A map, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some list

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t9:o3:1
# text = Some list
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	list	list	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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Some verses about the sea trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t9:o4:1
# text = Some verses about the sea trip
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trip	trip	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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