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title: Bruh, what colour cloth does the woodpecker trick? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what colour cloth does the woodpecker trick? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

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Bruh, what colour cloth does the woodpecker trick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour cloth · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** woodpecker trick

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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/686-pg2435-part26/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t3:1
# text = Bruh, what colour cloth does the woodpecker trick?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what colour cloth | the woodpecker trick |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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Yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = Yellow
1	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Heavy black velvet cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = Heavy black velvet cloth
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Scarlet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = Scarlet
1	Scarlet	scarlet	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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Bright scarlet cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = Bright scarlet cloth
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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