Test 6 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

Fatima asks: before anaesthetics, were people awake for operations?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fatima · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: people

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 anaesthetics	case
5	anaesthetics	anaesthetic	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 anaesthetics	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	cop
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asks	obj
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 operations	case
11	operations	operation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awake	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Fatima						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		people			before anaesthetics		tree rules

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

No, surgery was always painless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 painless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painless	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 painless	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 painless	advmod
6	painless	painless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	surgery					always, painless property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, until ether was shown in 1846

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 shown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shown	punct
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 shown	mark
4	ether	ether	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shown	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shown	aux:pass
6	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1846	case
8	1846	1846	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 shown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past · passive		ether				in 1846	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in 1846=Topic

Option 3

No, there was no surgery at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 surgery	det
6	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no surgery			all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Yes, but only in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 2000	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 2000	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 2000	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 2000	case
6	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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