Test 8 · ★ · The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic

"can I ask questions before I sign or is that rude?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: ask, sign, be · To what, where: questions

This is test 8 · ★ 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 sign	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sign	nsubj
8	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 rude	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rude	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 rude	mark
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sign	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	can	I	questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	sign in a quote	present	I			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	I not said here		rude property	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

Only grown-ups are allowed to ask questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	allow	present · passive		grown ups	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	grown ups not said here	questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You may ask anything before agreeing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 ask	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 agreeing	mark
6	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ask	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	may	You	anything					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient
2	agree speech: agree	gerund	You not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's rude, just sign and trust the doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sign	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sign	advmod
6	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trust	cc
8	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sign	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		rude property	tree rules
2	sign	infinitive				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	trust	infinitive		the doctor		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme

Option 4

Ask after the op, when it's all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 op	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 op	det
4	op	op	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 op	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 over	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 over	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 over	advmod
10	over	over	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here				after the op		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	op					all, over property	tree rules

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