Exam question 2 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

Identify the principal reason for which a patient tells the doctor clearly where it hurts and how it feels.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, patient · What happens: identify, tell, hurt, feel · To what, where: principal reason, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tells	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 patient	det
8	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
12	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	9 tells	advmod
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 hurts	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurts	nsubj
15	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tells	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feels	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 feels	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 feels	nsubj
19	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hurts	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	a patient	the doctor	for the principal reason; clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hurt	present	patient			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
4	feel	present	patient			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

It helps the doctor find out what is wrong

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 find	compound:prt
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 wrong	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	the doctor		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent doctor=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	find out	infinitive	the doctor not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

It is required for the waiting list

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 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 list	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 list	det
6	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 list	compound
7	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		It				for the waiting list	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

Option 3

It reduces the cost of medicine

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	2 reduces	nsubj
2	reduces	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cost	det
4	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 medicine	case
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present	It	the cost of medicine					vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cost=Patient
2	cost			medicine					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

It shortens the length of the appointment

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	2 shortens	nsubj
2	shortens	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 length	det
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shortens	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 appointment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 appointment	det
7	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 length	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shorten	present	It	the length of the appointment					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent length=Patient

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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