Exam question 4 · The GP, the family doctor and the nurse

Determine the principal purpose of plotting a child's height and weight upon a growth chart.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal purpose · What happens: determine, plot · To what, where: principal purpose, height

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 plotting	mark
6	plotting	plot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 purpose	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 height	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 child	case
10	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plotting	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weight	cc
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 height	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 chart	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chart	det
15	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chart	compound
16	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plotting	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	plot	gerund	the principal purpose not said here	a child's height and weight				upon a growth chart	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=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

To fix the cost of treatment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fix	mark
2	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cost	det
4	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fix	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 treatment	case
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	to-infinitive		the cost of treatment					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cost=Patient
2	cost			treatment					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To determine eligibility for school admission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 determine	mark
2	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eligibility	eligibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determine	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 admission	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admission	compound
6	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	to-infinitive		eligibility				for school admission	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eligibility=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To ascertain whether growth is proceeding satisfactorily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ascertain	mark
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 proceeding	mark
4	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proceeding	aux
6	proceeding	proceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ascertain	advcl
7	satisfactorily	satisfactorily	ADV	_	6 proceeding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	to-infinitive							vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	proceed	present · progressive	growth					satisfactorily property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To select a sporting discipline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 select	mark
2	select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 discipline	det
4	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 discipline	amod
5	discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 select	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	to-infinitive		a sporting discipline					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discipline=Theme
2	sport	gerund							tree rules

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