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title: Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now." W… — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now." What would most likely have happened without the vinegar? Test 6 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 6 · "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure

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Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now." What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bill, I · **What happens:** sort, be, happen · **To what, where:** cold

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This is test 6 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world 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/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:1
# text = Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now."
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** *in a quote* | past | Bill in Dublin | my cold |  |  | week |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  | now | grand *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:2
# text = What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | without the vinegar; likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Bill would have needed to go to hospital

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:o1:1
# text = Bill would have needed to go to hospital
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would · perfect | Bill |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bill *not said here* |  |  | hospital |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cold would have lasted all winter, maybe longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:o2:1
# text = The cold would have lasted all winter, maybe longer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | would · perfect · passive |  | the cold |  |  | winter | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bill would have caught two more colds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:o3:1
# text = Bill would have caught two more colds
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | would · perfect · passive |  | Bill |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The cold would have gone in about a week anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure:t6:o4:1
# text = The cold would have gone in about a week anyway
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would · perfect | the cold |  |  |  | week | anyway *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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