Exam question 2 · The GP, the family doctor and the nurse

Ascertain the instrument by means of which a physician auscultates the heart and lungs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, physician · What happens: ascertain, mean, auscultate · To what, where: instrument, heart

This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 means	case
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 auscultates	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 physician	det
9	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 auscultates	nsubj
10	auscultates	auscultate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heart	det
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 auscultates	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lungs	cc
14	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heart	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the instrument	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	auscultate	present	a physician	the heart and lungs	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

The thermometer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thermometer	det
2	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The otoscope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 otoscope	det
2	otoscope	otoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The sphygmograph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sphygmograph	det
2	sphygmograph	sphygmograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The stethoscope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stethoscope	det
2	stethoscope	stethoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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