Exam question 2 · Sprains, strains and bruises

Identify the recommended manner of applying cold to a recent injury.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, recommended manner · What happens: identify, recommend, apply · To what, where: recommended manner

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manner	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 manner	amod
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 applying	mark
6	applying	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 manner	acl
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 applying	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 injury	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 injury	det
10	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 injury	amod
11	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the recommended manner		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	recommend	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	apply	gerund	the recommended manner not said here		cold property	vn use-105.1 «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

Deferred until at least one week after the injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deferred	defer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	until	until	ADP	_	6 week	case
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 least	case
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	nmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 week	nummod
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deferred	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 injury	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 injury	det
9	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deferred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defer	participle					after the injury; week		vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Applied directly to the skin without interruption overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	5 skin	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 skin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Applied	obl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 interruption	case
7	interruption	interruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Applied	obl
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	1 Applied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	participle						to the skin; without interruption; overnight property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrapped in cloth for some fifteen to twenty minutes at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 cloth	case
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapped	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 minutes	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 minutes	det
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 twenty	case
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fifteen	nmod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wrapped	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle				cloth	minute; time		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 4

Applied with vigorous rubbing of the joint until the skin is numb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 rubbing	case
3	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rubbing	amod
4	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Applied	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 joint	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 joint	det
7	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbing	nmod
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 numb	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skin	det
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 numb	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 numb	cop
12	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Applied	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	apply	participle			with vigorous rubbing of the joint	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the skin		numb property	tree rules
3	rub			the joint		nom rubbing «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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