Exam question 1 · At the pharmacy

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the provision of prescriptions to persons under the age of sixteen in England.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, prescriptions · What happens: select, establish, concern, provide · To what, where: response, provision

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 provision	det
11	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 prescriptions	case
13	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 provision	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 persons	case
15	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obl
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 age	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 age	det
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 persons	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 sixteen	case
20	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 age	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 England	case
22	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 age	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the provision of prescriptions	to persons under the age of sixteen in England	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus provision=Experiencer
4	provide		prescriptions			nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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

Such prescriptions are charged at half the adult rate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prescriptions	amod
2	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charged	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charged	aux:pass
4	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 rate	case
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 rate	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rate	det
8	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rate	amod
9	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 charged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present · passive		Such prescriptions		half adult rate			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Such prescriptions are not dispensed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prescriptions	amod
2	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dispensed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dispensed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dispensed	advmod
5	dispensed	dispense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dispensed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dispense	present · passive		Such prescriptions		all			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Such prescriptions are dispensed free of charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prescriptions	amod
2	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dispensed	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dispensed	aux:pass
4	dispensed	dispense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dispensed	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 charge	case
7	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispense	present · passive		Such prescriptions				free property	tree rules

Option 4

Such prescriptions are charged at the adult rate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prescriptions	amod
2	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charged	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charged	aux:pass
4	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 rate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rate	det
7	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rate	amod
8	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 charged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present · passive		Such prescriptions		the adult rate			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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