Exam question 1 · Tummy bugs and tummy aches

Identify the principal measure in the management of a child with gastroenteritis.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, manage · To what, where: principal measure, management, child

This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 measure	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measure	amod
4	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 management	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 management	det
7	management	management	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 management	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 gastroenteritis	case
12	gastroenteritis	gastroenteritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal measure		the management of a child with gastroenteritis			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	manage			a child with gastroenteritis					nom management «act 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 · ✓ the right answer

Frequent small quantities of fluid to prevent dehydration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quantities	amod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quantities	amod
3	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fluid	case
5	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantities	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 prevent	mark
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quantities	acl
8	dehydration	dehydration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		dehydration					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer dehydration=Theme

Option 2

Administration of antibiotics at the earliest opportunity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Administration	administration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 antibiotics	case
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Administration	nmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 opportunity	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 opportunity	det
6	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 opportunity	amod
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 antibiotics	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer			antibiotics at the earliest opportunity					nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Provision of fizzy drinks in quantity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 drinks	case
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drinks	amod
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Provision	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 quantity	case
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide		fizzy drinks in quantity						nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Abstention from all fluids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abstention	abstention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 fluids	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fluids	det
4	fluids	fluid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Abstention	nmod

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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