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title: What remedy was administered to the sorceress within the apartment? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What remedy was administered to the sorceress within the apartment? Exam question 4 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 ques
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

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What remedy was administered to the sorceress within the apartment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** administer · **To what, where:** remedy, sorceress

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e4:1
# text = What remedy was administered to the sorceress within the apartment?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **administer** | past · passive |  | what remedy | the sorceress |  |  | within the apartment | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sorceress=Recipient |

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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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Water of the Fountain of Lions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e4:o1:1
# text = Water of the Fountain of Lions
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Healing tonic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e4:o2:1
# text = Healing tonic
1	Healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	tonic	tonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | tonic *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Water of the Golden Fountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e4:o3:1
# text = Water of the Golden Fountain
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Liquor from the Silver Spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1497-pg503-part84:e4:o4:1
# text = Liquor from the Silver Spring
1	Liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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