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title: What could that ointment do, in real life? — Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What could that ointment do, in real life? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

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What could that ointment do, in real life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ointment · **What happens:** do

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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/1649-pg5615-part38/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1649-pg5615-part38:t12:1
# text = What could that ointment do, in real life?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | ointment |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cure fever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1649-pg5615-part38:t12:o1:1
# text = Cure fever
1	Cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fever	fever	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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Mend broken bones and cure the plague

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1649-pg5615-part38:t12:o2:1
# text = Mend broken bones and cure the plague
1	Mend	mend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cure	cure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | imperative | you *not said here* | broken bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cure** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the plague |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer plague=Source |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Heal all wounds, even wake the dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1649-pg5615-part38:t12:o3:1
# text = Heal all wounds, even wake the dead
1	Heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wake	wake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | imperative | you *not said here* | all wounds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 2 | **wake** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Heal wounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1649-pg5615-part38:t12:o4:1
# text = Heal wounds
1	Heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | imperative | you *not said here* | wounds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |

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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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