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title: bloody plague, why didnt they just use medicine? — The Black Death and the end of the Mid… · tree and pragmatics
description: bloody plague, why didnt they just use medicine? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history 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 10 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

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bloody plague, why didnt they just use medicine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** medicine

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history 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/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t10:1
# text = bloody plague, why didnt they just use medicine?
1	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	didnt	didnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | they | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |

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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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They did not know about germs, and their remedies mostly did not work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t10:o1:1
# text = They did not know about germs, and their remedies mostly did not work
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | They |  |  |  |  | about germs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about germ=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **work** | past · do-support | germs's remedies |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remedy** |  | germs *= germ* |  |  |  |  |  | nom remedy «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They did, and their medicines worked perfectly every single time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t10:o2:1
# text = They did, and their medicines worked perfectly every single time
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | past | their medicines |  |  |  | time | perfectly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **medicine** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They had modern pills but forgot how to use them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t10:o3:1
# text = They had modern pills but forgot how to use them
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | They | modern pills |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | past | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **use** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | pills *= pill* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Medicine was against the law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t10:o4:1
# text = Medicine was against the law
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Medicine |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

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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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