Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…

what did the heads do after that, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: heads · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heads	det
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						mate vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the heads				after that		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

yeah, they all cursed her face, voice and husband too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cursed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cursed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cursed	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cursed	advmod
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 voice	punct
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 husband	cc
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	5 cursed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	they	her face and voice and husband					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 2

they gave her a curse each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 curse	det
5	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a curse	her = she				tree rules

Option 3

they laid curses on her proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laid	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 proper	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 proper	nmod:poss
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	they	curses		her proper			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curse=Theme on proper=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they put curses on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 put	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	they	curses					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent curse=Asset her=Goal

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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