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title: Innit, what colour did the carpenter paint the calf? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, what colour did the carpenter paint the calf? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

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Innit, what colour did the carpenter paint the calf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit colour, carpenter · **What happens:** do, paint · **To what, where:** calf

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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/751-pg2591-part27/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t5:1
# text = Innit, what colour did the carpenter paint the calf?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what Innit colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **paint** | infinitive | the carpenter | the calf |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent calf=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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t5:o1:1
# text = red
1	red	red	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t5:o2:1
# text = brown
1	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t5:o3:1
# text = tan
1	tan	tan	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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black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t5:o4:1
# text = black
1	black	black	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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