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title: Dad rubbed a dock leaf on my nettle sting and it felt better. Why mi… — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad rubbed a dock leaf on my nettle sting and it felt better. Why might it? Test 2 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Burns, sunburn and stings

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dad rubbed a dock leaf on my nettle sting and it felt better. Why might it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad, leaf, my · **What happens:** rub, feel, sting · **To what, where:** dock leaf, nettle sting

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This is test 2 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad rubbed a dock leaf on my nettle sting and it felt better.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:1
# text = Dad rubbed a dock leaf on my nettle sting and it felt better.
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | Dad | a dock leaf |  | my nettle sting |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on sting=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | past | leaf |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sting** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* Why might it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:2
# text = Why might it?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Dock leaves contain a proven cure for stings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:o1:1
# text = Dock leaves contain a proven cure for stings
1	Dock	dock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Dock leaves | a proven cure |  |  |  | for stings | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cure=Theme |
| 2 | **prove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The leaf sucks the sting out of the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:o2:1
# text = The leaf sucks the sting out of the skin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sucks	suck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | present | the leaf | the sting |  | the skin |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sting=Theme out skin=Source |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Something cool and wet can soothe and distract

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:o3:1
# text = Something cool and wet can soothe and distract
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	distract	distract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soothe** | can | Something |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **distract** | infinitive | Something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is magic and nobody knows why

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:t2:o4:1
# text = It is magic and nobody knows why
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | magic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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