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title: the ploughman's wife, was she dead nice or proper mean? — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: the ploughman's wife, was she dead nice or proper mean? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the de
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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the ploughman's wife, was she dead nice or proper mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, mean

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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/1963-pg7439-part22/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t6:1
# text = the ploughman's wife, was she dead nice or proper mean?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ploughman	ploughman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ploughman's wife |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the ploughman's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | infinitive | the ploughman's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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very greedy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t6:o1:1
# text = very greedy
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	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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kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t6:o2:1
# text = kind
1	kind	kind	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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good-hearted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t6:o3:1
# text = good-hearted
1	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hearted	hearted	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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nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t6:o4:1
# text = nice
1	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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