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title: who was she stuck with, like the worst husband? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads o… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was she stuck with, like the worst husband? Test 9 · ★ 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 opti
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…

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who was she stuck with, like the worst husband?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t9:1
# text = who was she stuck with, like the worst husband?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with the worst husband; stuck *property* | 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}

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a poor cobbler from out in the sticks, mind you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t9:o1:1
# text = a poor cobbler from out in the sticks, mind you
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | infinitive | a poor cobbler | you |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a skint country shoemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t9:o2:1
# text = a skint country shoemaker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a poor country cobbler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t9:o3:1
# text = a poor country cobbler
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a poor village tailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1976-pg7439-part35:t9:o4:1
# text = a poor village tailor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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