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title: Identify the item which the stranger demanded in return for applying… — Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Compa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the item which the stranger demanded in return for applying his unguent to the aged woman's fractured limb. Exam question 2 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» of the books course of Mova'
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

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Identify the item which the stranger demanded in return for applying his unguent to the aged woman's fractured limb.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, stranger, return · **What happens:** identify, demand, apply, fracture · **To what, where:** item, return, unguent

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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/1007-pg27200-part218/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e2:1
# text = Identify the item which the stranger demanded in return for applying his unguent to the aged woman's fractured limb.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	applying	apply	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	unguent	unguent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the item |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the stranger | the item |  | return |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition |
| 3 | **apply** | gerund | return *not said here* | stranger's unguent |  |  |  | to the aged woman's fractured limb | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unguent=Theme |
| 4 | **fracture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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three fern stems plus a silver coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e2:o1:1
# text = three fern stems plus a silver coin
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two fern leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e2:o2:1
# text = two fern leaves
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e2:o3:1
# text = a coin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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three fern stems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e2:o4:1
# text = three fern stems
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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