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title: Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors. Why? — Healthy food, water and vitamins · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors. Why? Test 6 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world 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 6 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

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Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** lemons

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This is test 6 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» 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/36-healthy-food/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:1
# text = Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | a ship | lemons |  |  |  | for the sailors; ago *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemon=Theme |

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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?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Lemons gave vitamin C and kept away scurvy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:o1:1
# text = Lemons gave vitamin C and kept away scurvy
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Lemons | vitamin |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | participle | Lemons *not said here* | scurvy |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scurvy=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lemons kept the water from freezing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:o2:1
# text = Lemons kept the water from freezing
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Lemons | the water |  | freezing |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer water=Beneficiary from freezing=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lemons gave the sailors protein

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:o3:1
# text = Lemons gave the sailors protein
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Lemons | sailors protein |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lemons were used to clean the deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:t6:o4:1
# text = Lemons were used to clean the deck
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | Lemons |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **clean** | to-infinitive |  | the deck |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deck=Patient |

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