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title: Sick, what was Blauvor? — Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what was Blauvor? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 7 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sick, what was Blauvor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sick, be · **To what, where:** Blauvor

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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/699-pg2435-part39/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t7:1
# text = Sick, what was Blauvor?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Blauvor	Blauvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Blauvor |  |  |  |  | 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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an ogress and a witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t7:o1:1
# text = an ogress and a witch
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cruel stepmother hiding her true form

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t7:o2:1
# text = a cruel stepmother hiding her true form
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund | a cruel stepmother *not said here* | stepmother's true form |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 2 | **form** |  | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a monster of the sea with black arts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t7:o3:1
# text = a monster of the sea with black arts
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a giantess and a thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t7:o4:1
# text = a giantess and a thief
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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