Exam question 1 · Hospitals, operations and serious illness

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the order in which patients are attended to in an Accident and Emergency department?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, attend · To what, where: order, patients

This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 order	det
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 attended	obl
13	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 attended	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 attended	aux:pass
15	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 order	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 Accident	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Accident	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Accident	det
19	Accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attended	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 department	cc
21	Emergency	Emergency	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 department	compound
22	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Accident	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the order		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	attend	present · passive	patients	the order	to a Accident and Emergency department	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Patients residing nearest the hospital are accorded priority

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 accorded	nsubj:pass
2	residing	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Patients	acl
3	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	5 hospital	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hospital	det
5	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 residing	obl
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 accorded	aux:pass
7	accorded	accord	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	priority	priority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accorded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reside	gerund	Patients not said here					nearest the hospital	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accord	present · passive		Patients					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal priority=Theme

Option 2

Patients are seen strictly in the order in which they arrived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux:pass
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	3 seen	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 arrived	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 arrived	nsubj
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 order	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		Patients		the order		strictly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	arrive	past	Patients = patient			the order			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Patients of advanced age are invariably seen before all others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 age	case
3	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Patients	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux:pass
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 others	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		Patients of advanced age			before all others	invariably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Patients are seen in order of clinical urgency, not order of arrival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux:pass
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 urgency	case
7	clinical	clinical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 urgency	amod
8	urgency	urgency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 order	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 order	advmod
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 urgency	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 arrival	case
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 order	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	present · passive	Patients	order of clinical urgency	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	order		clinical urgency		nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	order		arrival		nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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