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title: no cap, what colour was the second hyacinth sister's dress? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what colour was the second hyacinth sister's dress? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

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no cap, what colour was the second hyacinth sister's dress?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» 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/981-pg27200-part192/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t2:1
# text = no cap, what colour was the second hyacinth sister's dress?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no cap | the second hyacinth sister's dress |  |  |  |  | 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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blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t2:o1:1
# text = blue
1	blue	blue	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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green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t2:o2:1
# text = green
1	green	green	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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white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t2:o3:1
# text = white
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bright yellow silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t2:o4:1
# text = bright yellow silk
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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