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Test 10 · ★ · Hospitals, operations and serious illness

On the news: "Hospitals warn of long waits in emergency departments this winter." Why are waits longest then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hospitals · What happens: warn, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 21 «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: On the news: "Hospitals warn of long waits in emergency departments this winter."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 news	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 news	det
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 news	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hospitals	punct
6	Hospitals	Hospital	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 warn	nsubj
7	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 waits	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 waits	amod
10	waits	wait	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warn	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 departments	case
12	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 departments	compound
13	departments	department	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warn	obl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 winter	det
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 warn	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 warn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn in a quote	present	Hospitals				winter	of long waits; in emergency departments; on the news	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on news=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: Why are waits longest then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 waits	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waits	cop
3	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	longest	long	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 waits	advmod
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 waits	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 waits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					then	long, wait property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Patients choose to come in winter for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choose	nsubj
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 choose	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	Patients						tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	Patients not said here				winter	for fun	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Hospitals close half their beds every December

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	nsubj
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 beds	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beds	nmod:poss
5	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 December	det
7	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present	Hospitals	Hospitals's beds			december		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient

Option 3

Doctors take their summer holidays in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 holidays	nmod:poss
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holidays	compound
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Doctors	Doctors's summer holidays			winter		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Winter brings more illness, so A&E is busier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brings	nsubj
2	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 illness	amod
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 busier	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 busier	advmod
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 E	det
8	&	&	CCONJ	_	9 E	cc
9	E	E	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 busier	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 busier	cop
11	busier	busy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brings	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Winter	more illness					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent illness=Theme
2	is	present	a E					busy property	tree rules

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