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title: What is the nature of the fluid which the Tamuls define as sanjivi? — Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Dea… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the nature of the fluid which the Tamuls define as sanjivi? Exam question 2 of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 2 · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

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What is the nature of the fluid which the Tamuls define as sanjivi?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nature, Tamuls · **What happens:** be, define · **To what, where:** fluid

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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/461-pg22373-part53/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:e2:1
# text = What is the nature of the fluid which the Tamuls define as sanjivi?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tamuls	Tamul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	define	define	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sanjivi	sanjivi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the nature of the fluid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **define** | present | the Tamuls | the fluid |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a medicine dissipating a mortal swoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:e2:o1:1
# text = a medicine dissipating a mortal swoon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	dissipating	dissipate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swoon	swoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissipate** | gerund | a medicine *not said here* | a mortal swoon |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent swoon=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a potion curing a deadly faint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:e2:o2:1
# text = a potion curing a deadly faint
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | gerund | a potion *not said here* | a deadly faint |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer faint=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a drink ending a fatal sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:e2:o3:1
# text = a drink ending a fatal sleep
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | gerund | a drink *not said here* | a fatal sleep |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sleep=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:461-pg22373-part53:e2:o4:1
# text = a medicine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	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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