Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

Why's the widow getting curs'd by the Pope?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: widow · What happens: get, ' · To what, where: curs

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 getting	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 widow	det
4	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	curs	cur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 getting	obj
7	'd	'	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 curs	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Pope	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pope	det
10	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 'd	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	the widow	curs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cur=Stimulus
2	'	participle		curs not said here				by the Pope	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the bishop grassed her up to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 grassed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bishop	det
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grassed	nsubj
4	grassed	grass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grassed	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grassed	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grassed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass up	past	the bishop	her = she	him = he				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Option 2

Cos she owed the church money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 owed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owed	nsubj
3	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	she	the church money					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

Cos she grassed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 grassed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grassed	nsubj
3	grassed	grass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grassed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass	past	she		him = he				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

Option 4

Cos she refused the bishop's offer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 refused	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bishop	det
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bishop	case
7	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	she	the bishop's offer					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
2	offer		the bishop						nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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