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title: Did the magicians reckon a sinless boy's blood would fix it? — Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the magicians reckon a sinless boy's blood would fix it? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

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Did the magicians reckon a sinless boy's blood would fix it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** magicians, blood · **What happens:** reckon, fix · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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/1063-pg2892-part31/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t8:1
# text = Did the magicians reckon a sinless boy's blood would fix it?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sinless	sinless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | the magicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** | would | a sinless boy's blood | it |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, mixed with the soil of Tara

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, mixed with the soil of Tara
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the soil of Tara | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with soil=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **soil** |  |  | Tara |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = Nah, just water
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, mixed with the milk of cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, mixed with the milk of cows
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the milk of cows | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with milk=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, with milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, with milk
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	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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**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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