--- title: Bruv, what colours were the trees the prince took? — Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruv, what colours were the trees the prince took? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/698-pg2435-part38/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/698-pg2435-part38/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre… Bruv, what colours were the trees the prince took? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** trees, Bruv colours, prince · **What happens:** colour, be, take · **To what, where:** trees This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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/698-pg2435-part38/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t13:1 # text = Bruv, what colours were the trees the prince took? 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **colour** | | the trees | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | Bruv colours | the trees | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | past | the prince | the trees *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | 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} both green and gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t13:o1:1 # text = both green and gold 1 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} one white, one blue ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t13:o2:1 # text = one white, one blue 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 5 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} one red birch and one green fir tree ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t13:o3:1 # text = one red birch and one green fir tree 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} one red, one green ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t13:o4:1 # text = one red, one green 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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