--- title: yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads o… · tree and pragmatics description: yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky? Test 8 · ★ 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1976-pg7439-part35/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1976-pg7439-part35/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g… yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** curse This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t8:1 # text = yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky? 1 yo yo INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 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 for for 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 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 squeaky squeaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the curse | | | | for her voice | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} like a crow, all croaky ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t8:o1:1 # text = like a crow, all croaky 1 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 croaky croaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} like a corn-crake, harsh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t8:o2:1 # text = like a corn-crake, harsh 1 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 crake crake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} a hoarse bird voice, dead rough ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t8:o3:1 # text = a hoarse bird voice, dead rough 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 hoarse hoarse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} like a corn-crake, dead harsh and screechy like ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t8:o4:1 # text = like a corn-crake, dead harsh and screechy like 1 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 crake crake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 screechy screechy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 like like INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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