Exam question 4 · The optician and glasses
Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, employ · To what, where: treatment, cases
This is exam question 4 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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 | 3 treatment | det |
| 3 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 5 employed | advmod |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 treatment | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cases | case |
| 7 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 employed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cataract | case |
| 9 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cases | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | 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 treatment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Topic | ||||
| 2 | employ | participle | the treatment not said here | cases of cataract | ordinarily property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
Surgical replacement of the clouded lens with an artificial lens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgical | surgical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replacement | amod |
| 2 | replacement | replacement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lens | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lens | det |
| 5 | clouded | cloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lens | amod |
| 6 | lens | lens | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replacement | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lens | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lens | det |
| 9 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lens | amod |
| 10 | lens | lens | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lens | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | replace | the clouded lens with a artificial lens | nom replacement «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
The application of an eye patch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 application | det |
| 2 | application | application | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 patch | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 patch | det |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 patch | compound |
| 6 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 application | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | a eye patch | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
No treatment exists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 treatment | det |
| 2 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exists | nsubj |
| 3 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | no treatment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Dietary supplementation with carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dietary | dietary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 supplementation | amod |
| 2 | supplementation | supplementation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 carrots | case |
| 4 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 supplementation | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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