Exam question 3 · Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body

Select the response that is consistent with the established meaning of the term "adverse event" in medical records.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish, mean · To what, where: response, term

This is exam question 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 meaning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meaning	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 meaning	amod
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 term	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 term	det
13	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meaning	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 event	punct
15	adverse	adverse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 event	amod
16	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 term	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 event	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 records	case
19	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 records	amod
20	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 event	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established meaning of the term; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	mean			the term		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

A disagreement among the staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 disagreement	det
2	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 staff	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 staff	det
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disagreement	nmod

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

Option 2

An unfavourable change in the weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 change	det
2	unfavourable	unfavourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	amod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 weather	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Harm or injury caused by medical treatment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 injury	cc
3	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Harm	conj
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Harm	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 treatment	case
6	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treatment	amod
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		Harm or injury not said here				by medical treatment	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 4

A cancelled hospital appointment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 appointment	det
2	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 appointment	amod
3	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appointment	compound
4	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	participle							tree rules

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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