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title: What ailment did the sorceress feign upon the roadside? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What ailment did the sorceress feign upon the roadside? Exam question 2 of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

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What ailment did the sorceress feign upon the roadside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ailment · **What happens:** feign

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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/1497-pg503-part84/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e2:1
# text = What ailment did the sorceress feign upon the roadside?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	ailment	ailment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feign	feign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | past · do-support | ailment |  |  |  |  | upon the roadside | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 {#o1}

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A sore throat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e2:o1:1
# text = A sore throat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A cough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e2:o2:1
# text = A cough
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 sudden headache

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e2:o3:1
# text = A sudden headache
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A violent fever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e2:o4:1
# text = A violent fever
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fever	fever	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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