Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body
It is given that a medical practitioner forewarns a patient of "some discomfort". Determine what the patient should anticipate.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: medical practitioner, you, patient · What happens: give, forewarn, determine, anticipate · To what, where: It, patient
This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» of the euphemisms 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a medical practitioner forewarns a patient of "some discomfort".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 forewarns | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 practitioner | det |
| 6 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 practitioner | amod |
| 7 | practitioner | practitioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forewarns | nsubj |
| 8 | forewarns | forewarn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 patient | det |
| 10 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forewarns | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 discomfort | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 discomfort | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 discomfort | det |
| 14 | discomfort | discomfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 patient | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 discomfort | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forewarn | present | a medical practitioner | a patient of some discomfort | tree rules |
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: Determine what the patient should anticipate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 anticipate | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 patient | det |
| 4 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anticipate | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 anticipate | aux |
| 6 | anticipate | anticipate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | anticipate | should | the patient | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A sensation of cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sensation | det |
| 2 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cold | case |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sensation | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A period of boredom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 boredom | case |
| 4 | boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A degree of pain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 degree | det |
| 2 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 degree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A feeling of hunger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 feeling | det |
| 2 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hunger | case |
| 4 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feeling | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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