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title: What was the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction? — Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction? Exam question 4 of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

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What was the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** proposed remedy, youth, king · **What happens:** be, propose, remedy, afflict

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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/1196-pg3027-part62/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:e4:1
# text = What was the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remedy** |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | for the king's affliction | nom remedy «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 4 | **afflict** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 fresh cloth and a healing salve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:e4:o1:1
# text = a fresh cloth and a healing salve
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a healing potion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:e4:o2:1
# text = a healing potion
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a new slipper with healing plaster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:e4:o3:1
# text = a new slipper with healing plaster
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a special brew and some honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:e4:o4:1
# text = a special brew and some honey
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brew	brew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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