Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Could the Fairy's water really cure fevers, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: cure · To what, where: fevers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1498 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 85: the Sultan asks for a magic tent and healing water» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cure	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Fairy	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cure	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 cure	advmod
7	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cure	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fevers	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	could	the Fairy's water	fevers					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer fever=Source

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it heals all sorts of pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heals	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heals	nsubj
4	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sorts	det
6	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heals	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pain	case
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	it	all sorts of pain					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
2	sort			pain					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it cures all sorts of fevers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cures	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cures	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cures	nsubj
4	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sorts	det
6	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cures	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fevers	case
8	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sorts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	it	all sorts of fevers					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sort=Source
2	sort			fevers					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Yeah, mate, it cures all sorts of fevers and the Fairy's water is magic

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cures	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cures	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cures	nsubj
6	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sorts	det
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cures	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fevers	case
10	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sorts	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 magic	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 water	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Fairy	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 magic	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 magic	cop
17	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cures	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cure	present	mate	all sorts of fevers		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sort=Source
2	is	present	the Fairy's water		magic property	tree rules
3	sort			fevers		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Nah, it cures just colds, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cures	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cures	nsubj
4	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 colds	advmod
6	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cures	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	it	colds and mate					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source

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