Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

What could that ointment do, in real life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ointment · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
4	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 could	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 life	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 life	amod
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	ointment						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cure fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fever	compound
2	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Mend broken bones and cure the plague

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bones	amod
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mend	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cure	cc
5	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Mend	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plague	det
7	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mend	imperative	you not said here	broken bones	tree rules
2	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	cure	infinitive	you not said here	the plague	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer plague=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Heal all wounds, even wake the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 wounds	det
3	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Heal	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wake	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 wake	advmod
6	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Heal	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dead	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	imperative	you not said here	all wounds					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
2	wake	infinitive	you not said here	the dead					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient

Option 4

Heal wounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Heal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	imperative	you not said here	wounds					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient

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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