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title: Yo, what colour was the dwarf's new cloak? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what colour was the dwarf's new cloak? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

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Yo, what colour was the dwarf's new cloak?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colour · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** new cloak

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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/775-pg2591-part51/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t6:1
# text = Yo, what colour was the dwarf's new cloak?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what colour | the dwarf's new cloak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Crimson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t6:o1:1
# text = Crimson
1	Crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Deep scarlet like the setting sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t6:o2:1
# text = Deep scarlet like the setting sun
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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:775-pg2591-part51:t6: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 with gold trim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t6:o4:1
# text = Bright scarlet with gold trim
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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