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title: bro, what colour was King Hroar's crown? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tu… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what colour was King Hroar's crown? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» 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 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…

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bro, what colour was King Hroar's crown?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** crown

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» 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/885-pg27200-part96/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:t8:1
# text = bro, what colour was King Hroar's crown?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	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	9	cop	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hroar	Hroar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro and what colour | King Hroar's crown |  |  |  |  | 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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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:t8:o1:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	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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golden with red jewels all over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:t8:o2:1
# text = golden with red jewels all over
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:t8:o3:1
# text = silver
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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golden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:t8:o4:1
# text = golden
1	golden	golden	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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