Test 2 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

Why is the emergency department not first come, first served?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emergency department · What happens: be, not come, serve · To what, where: emergency department

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 department	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 department	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 department	det
4	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 department	compound
5	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	advmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 served	punct
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 served	advmod
11	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 come	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the emergency department		tree rules
2	not come	infinitive	the emergency department		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	serve	participle	the emergency department not said here		first property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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

Nurses forget who came first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forget	ccomp
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Nurses						tree rules
2	come	past						first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is quicker to see children first, so they always go ahead of adults

The tree, 14 words

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 quicker	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quicker	cop
3	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quicker	csubj
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 see	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quicker	conj
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 adults	case
15	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		quick property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		children	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	go	present	children = child		of adults; ahead, always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of adult=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People who are most seriously hurt need help first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hurt	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux:pass
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 seriously	advmod
5	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 People	acl:relcl
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive		People				seriously property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	need	present	People	help				first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 4

The doctors like to choose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctors	det
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 choose	mark
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the doctors						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the doctors not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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