Exam question 3 · Snap! Breaking a bone

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the order of treatment in an emergency department?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, order · To what, where: order, emergency department, treatment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1 «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 order	det
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 treatment	case
12	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 order	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 department	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 department	det
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 department	compound
16	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the order of treatment	a emergency department	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	order		treatment			nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Patients are treated in alphabetical order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 treated	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 treated	aux:pass
3	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
5	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 order	amod
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present · passive		Patients		alphabetical order			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Patients are assessed on arrival and the most urgent treated first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assessed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assessed	aux:pass
3	assessed	assess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 arrival	case
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assessed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 treated	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 urgent	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 urgent	advmod
9	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 treated	nsubj:pass
10	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 assessed	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 treated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assess	present · passive		Patients		arrival			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	treat	participle · passive		the urgent				first property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Children are invariably treated before adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present · passive		Children			before adults	invariably property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Patients are treated strictly in the order in which they arrive at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 treated	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 treated	aux:pass
3	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	3 treated	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treated	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 arrive	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 arrive	nsubj
11	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 order	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present · passive		Patients		the order		strictly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	arrive	present	Patients = patient			the order		at the door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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