Exam question 4 · Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds

State the effect of hiding or playing down pain.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: State effect · What happens: hide, play down · To what, where: pain

This is exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effect	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 hiding	mark
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 effect	acl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 playing	cc
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hiding	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 playing	compound:prt
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 effect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	the State effect not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play down	gerund	the State effect not said here	pain					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme

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

An injury may be found late and heal worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 injury	det
2	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux:pass
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 found	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heal	cc
8	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	conj
9	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 heal	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	may · passive		a injury				late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	heal	infinitive						badly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It has no effect on treatment

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 treatment	case
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no effect		treatment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 3

It makes the doctor more careful

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	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 makes	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 careful	advmod
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the doctor				careful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material doctor=Product

Option 4

It makes an injury heal faster

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 heal	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	a injury					tree rules
2	heal	infinitive	a injury not said here					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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