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title: Bruv, what colour is the wild man's skin, like? — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what colour is the wild man's skin, like? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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 w
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

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Bruv, what colour is the wild man's skin, like?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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/784-pg2591-part60/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what colour is the wild man's skin, like?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	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	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | what colour | the wild man's skin |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brown like rusty iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t3:o1:1
# text = brown like rusty iron
1	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brown like old wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t3:o2:1
# text = brown like old wood
1	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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covered in brown hair like a bear's coat from top to toe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t3:o3:1
# text = covered in brown hair like a bear's coat from top to toe
1	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a bear's coat; from top to toe; in brown hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hair=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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brown all over like a rusty iron kettle left out in the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t3:o4:1
# text = brown all over like a rusty iron kettle left out in the rain
1	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | participle |  | a rusty iron kettle *not said here* |  | the rain |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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