Exam question 2 · Eczema and other skin troubles

Identify the principal daily treatment for eczema.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal daily treatment

This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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	5 treatment	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 treatment	amod
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 treatment	amod
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 eczema	case
7	eczema	eczema	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treatment	nmod
8	.	.	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 daily treatment				for eczema	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent treatment=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

Avoidance of all contact with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 contact	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 contact	det
4	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoidance	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contact	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid			all contact with water					nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Daily courses of antibiotics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 courses	amod
2	courses	course	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 antibiotics	case
4	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 courses	nmod

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

Option 3

Daily application of perfumed soap to the affected skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 application	amod
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 soap	case
4	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 soap	amod
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
8	affected	affected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perfume	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	apply		perfumed soap					to the affected skin	nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent to=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Regular application of emollients

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 application	amod
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 emollients	case
4	emollients	emollient	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		emollients						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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