Test 11 · ★ · The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic

Why is the numbing cream put on an hour before the cannula, not just before?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: numbing cream · What happens: be, numb, put · To what, where: numbing cream, cannula

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 28 «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cream	det
4	numbing	numb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cream	amod
5	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cream	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 cannula	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cannula	det
12	cannula	cannula	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 before	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 before	advmod
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 before	advmod
16	before	before	ADV	_	12 cannula	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the numbing cream				why property	tree rules
2	numb	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	put	participle		the numbing cream not said here	the cannula	hour		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before cannula=Destination

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

The cream only works on cold skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cream	det
2	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the cream					on cold skin	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on skin=Theme

Option 2

The cannula must go in first to guide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cannula	det
2	cannula	cannula	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 guide	mark
8	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 guide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	must	the cannula					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guide	to-infinitive	the cannula not said here	cannula					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The cream needs time to numb the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cream	det
2	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 numb	mark
6	numb	numb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the cream				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	numb not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cream not said here	the skin					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer

Option 4

The cream is really for healing the hole afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cream	det
2	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 healing	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 healing	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 healing	mark
6	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healing	obj
9	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 healing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present · progressive	the cream	the hole				afterwards property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

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