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title: bruv what was the curse on her face? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads o… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv what was the curse on her face? Test 7 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…

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bruv what was the curse on her face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** curse, face

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This is test 7 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1976-pg7439-part35/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t7:1
# text = bruv what was the curse on her face?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bruv | the curse |  | her face |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
rotten face, all scabby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t7:o1:1
# text = rotten face, all scabby
1	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	scabby	scabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
leprosy on her face, all rotting and proper nasty like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = leprosy on her face, all rotting and proper nasty like
1	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
scabs all over her skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = scabs all over her skin
1	scabs	scab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
leprosy, all mangy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = leprosy, all mangy
1	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	mangy	mangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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