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title: What colour were Tina's pigtails, can you remember? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: What colour were Tina's pigtails, can you remember? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dra…

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What colour were Tina's pigtails, can you remember?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 652 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 20: the dragon minds the baby, then fights a giant» 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/652-pg23661-part20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:t10:1
# text = What colour were Tina's pigtails, can you remember?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Tina	Tina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pigtails	pigtail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | Tina's pigtails |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | can | you | Tina's pigtails *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pigtail=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yellow, proper yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:t10:o1:1
# text = yellow, proper yellow
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	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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pink, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:t10:o2:1
# text = pink, bruv
1	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	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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yellow, proper yellow, like a bright buttercup in the summer sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:t10:o3:1
# text = yellow, proper yellow, like a bright buttercup in the summer sun
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dark brown, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:652-pg23661-part20:t10:o4:1
# text = dark brown, proper
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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