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title: Cousin eats only beige food. What did the doctor most likely do? — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: Cousin eats only beige food. What did the doctor most likely do? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» of the medicine 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 8 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

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Cousin eats only beige food. What did the doctor most likely do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cousin · **What happens:** eat, do · **To what, where:** beige food

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» of the medicine 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/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cousin eats only beige food.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:1
# text = Cousin eats only beige food.
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	beige	beige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Cousin | beige food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did the doctor most likely do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:2
# text = What did the doctor most likely do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Suggested a multivitamin and tiny tastes of new food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:o1:1
# text = Suggested a multivitamin and tiny tastes of new food
1	Suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	multivitamin	multivitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past |  | a multivitamin and tiny tastes of new food |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent multivitamin=Topic |
| 2 | **taste** |  |  | new food |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Banned all food but beige

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:o2:1
# text = Banned all food but beige
1	Banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beige	beige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | participle |  | all food but beige |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Said fussy eaters stay fussy forever, so there's nothing to do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:o3:1
# text = Said fussy eaters stay fussy forever, so there's nothing to do
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fussy	fussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	fussy	fussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** | present | fussy eaters |  |  |  |  | fussy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gave him an operation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t8:o4:1
# text = Gave him an operation
1	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | a operation | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient operation=Theme |

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