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title: Sis, what colour was the dress for the last party? — Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sis, what colour was the dress for the last party? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

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Sis, what colour was the dress for the last party?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sis · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dress

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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/787-pg2591-part63/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t8:1
# text = Sis, what colour was the dress for the last party?
1	Sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	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 | Sis and what colour | the dress |  |  |  | for the last party | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sparkly like the stars, mad shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t8:o1:1
# text = Sparkly like the stars, mad shiny
1	Sparkly	sparkly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sparkly like the stars at night, mad shiny, proper lush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t8:o2:1
# text = Sparkly like the stars at night, mad shiny, proper lush
1	Sparkly	sparkly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lush	lush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sparkly like the stars in the sky, mad shiny, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t8:o3:1
# text = Sparkly like the stars in the sky, mad shiny, bruv
1	Sparkly	sparkly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sparkly like the moon, mad bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t8:o4:1
# text = Sparkly like the moon, mad bright
1	Sparkly	sparkly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bright	bright	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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