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title: Which curse does Yallery Brown lay upon Tom before he departs? — More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which curse does Yallery Brown lay upon Tom before he departs? Exam question 3 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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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# Exam question 3 · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

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Which curse does Yallery Brown lay upon Tom before he departs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** curse, Yallery · **What happens:** do, lie, depart · **To what, where:** Tom

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/240-pg14241-part7/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e3:1
# text = Which curse does Yallery Brown lay upon Tom before he departs?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	departs	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which curse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Yallery |  |  | Tom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tom=Location |
| 3 | **depart** | present | Yallery |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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a born fool's luck for all his days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e3:o1:1
# text = a born fool's luck for all his days
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a born fool's luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e3:o2:1
# text = a born fool's luck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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bad luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e3:o3:1
# text = bad luck
1	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	luck	luck	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 cruel fool's curse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e3:o4:1
# text = a cruel fool's curse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** |  | a cruel fool |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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