Exam question 4 · Needles and brave faces

Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of bravery in the context of medical treatment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, characterise · To what, where: accurate characterisation, bravery

This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 characterisation	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 characterisation	amod
5	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bravery	case
7	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterisation	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 context	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 context	det
10	context	context	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bravery	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 treatment	case
12	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 treatment	amod
13	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 context	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the accurate characterisation of bravery in the context of medical treatment					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic
2	characterise			bravery in the context of medical treatment					nom characterisation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 refusal of numbing preparations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 refusal	det
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 preparations	case
4	numbing	numbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preparations	compound
5	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 refusal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse			numbing preparations					nom refusal «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The undertaking of the treatment notwithstanding fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 undertaking	det
2	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 treatment	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 treatment	det
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 undertaking	nmod
6	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 undertaking	acl
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 notwithstanding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notwithstand	gerund	the undertaking of the treatment not said here	fear					tree rules
2	undertake			the treatment					nom undertaking «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The complete absence of fear in the patient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 absence	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 absence	amod
3	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fear	case
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 absence	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 patient	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 patient	det
8	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent			fear in the patient					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The suppression of all tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 suppression	det
2	suppression	suppression	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tears	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tears	det
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suppression	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppress			all tears					nom suppression «process transitive»: of=patient

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