Exam question 1 · First aid, medicine and the sun

Identify the correct treatment of a burn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, treat · To what, where: correct treatment, burn

This is exam question 1 of lesson 210 «First aid, medicine and the sun» of the everyday 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 treatment	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 treatment	amod
4	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 burn	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 burn	det
7	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treatment	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct treatment of a burn					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme
2	treat			a burn					nom treatment «act 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

The application of ice directly to the skin for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 application	det
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod
5	directly	directly	ADV	_	8 skin	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hour	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		ice						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Covering with a woollen cloth at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covering	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Covering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund						with a woollen cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cooling under cool running water for twenty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 water	case
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooling	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	gerund				cool running water	minute		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The application of butter to the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 application	det
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 butter	case
4	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		butter					to the skin	nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent to=obl

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