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title: Bruv, what colour was that bird that sang so sweetly? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what colour was that bird that sang so sweetly? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

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Bruv, what colour was that bird that sang so sweetly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colour, bird · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** bird

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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/744-pg2591-part20/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t2:1
# text = Bruv, what colour was that bird that sang so sweetly?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | bird |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | bird |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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 {#o1}

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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t2:o1:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Snow-white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t2:o2:1
# text = Snow-white
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Red, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t2:o3:1
# text = Red, bruv
1	Red	red	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 4 {#o4}

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Bright red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t2:o4:1
# text = Bright red
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	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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