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title: Bro, what colour was Hjalmar's boat, proper? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what colour was Hjalmar's boat, proper? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

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Bro, what colour was Hjalmar's boat, proper?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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/926-pg27200-part137/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t6:1
# text = Bro, what colour was Hjalmar's boat, proper?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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	8	cop	_	_
6	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Hjalmar's boat |  |  |  |  | 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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blue and yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t6:o1:1
# text = blue and yellow
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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blue, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t6:o2:1
# text = blue, bruv
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t6:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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red and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t6:o4:1
# text = red and white
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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