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title: Mate, what was the ointment even for? — English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the ointment even for? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

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Mate, what was the ointment even for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ointment

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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/1974-pg7439-part33/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t1:1
# text = Mate, what was the ointment even for?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the ointment | the ointment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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to rub the baby's feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t1:o1:1
# text = to rub the baby's feet
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | to-infinitive |  | the baby's feet |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to cover the imps' whole faces and hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t1:o2:1
# text = to cover the imps' whole faces and hands
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	imps	imp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | the imps's whole faces and hands |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to heal the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t1:o3:1
# text = to heal the cook
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

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

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to stroke the baby's eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t1:o4:1
# text = to stroke the baby's eyes
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stroke** | to-infinitive |  | the baby's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer |

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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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