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title: Wait, what colour was Else's hair? — Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what colour was Else's hair? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 13 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

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Wait, what colour was Else's hair?

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

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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/965-pg27200-part176/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t13:1
# text = Wait, what colour was Else's hair?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Else	Else	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | what colour | Else's hair |  |  |  |  | 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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Golden, like wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t13:o1:1
# text = Golden, like wheat
1	Golden	golden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t13:o2:1
# text = Brown
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Flaxen, like sunshine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t13:o3:1
# text = Flaxen, like sunshine
1	Flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dark, like wet sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t13:o4:1
# text = Dark, like wet sand
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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