Exam question 1 · Helpers in town and building sites

Identify the principle by which patients are attended to in an emergency department.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principle · What happens: identify, attend · To what, where: principle, patients, emergency department

This is exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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	3 principle	det
3	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 attended	obl
6	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 attended	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 attended	aux:pass
8	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 principle	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 attended	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 department	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 department	det
12	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 department	compound
13	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attended	obl
14	.	.	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 principle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent principle=Theme
2	attend	present · passive	the principle	patients		a emergency department			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 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 · ✓ the right answer

The most serious cases are attended to first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cases	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 serious	advmod
3	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cases	amod
4	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attended	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 attended	aux:pass
6	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	present · passive		the serious cases					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal

Option 2

Patients who pay more are attended to first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attended	nsubj:pass
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 pay	nsubj
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Patients	acl:relcl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pay	obj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 attended	aux:pass
6	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Patients	more					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
2	attend	present · passive		Patients					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal

Option 3

Patients are seen strictly in 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	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	3 seen	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 arrival	case
8	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 order	nmod

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

Option 4

Children are invariably seen before adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux:pass
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obl

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

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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