Exam question 1 · Burns, sunburn and stings

Identify the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend, treat · To what, where: recommended initial treatment, minor thermal burn

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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	5 treatment	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 treatment	amod
4	initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 treatment	amod
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 burn	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 burn	det
8	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burn	amod
9	thermal	thermal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burn	amod
10	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treatment	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme
2	recommend	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	treat			a minor thermal burn	nom treatment «act 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

Application of ice directly to the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 ice	case
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Application	nmod
4	directly	directly	ADV	_	7 skin	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Application	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		ice						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Application of butter or other fats to retain moisture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 butter	case
3	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Application	nmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 fats	cc
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fats	amod
6	fats	fat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Application	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 retain	mark
8	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Application	advcl
9	moisture	moisture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 retain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	to-infinitive		moisture					tree rules
2	apply		butter						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Cooling beneath cool running water for twenty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 water	case
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooling	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	gerund					minute	beneath cool running water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Application of toothpaste to the affected area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 toothpaste	case
3	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Application	nmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 area	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 area	det
6	affected	affected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 area	amod
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		toothpaste					to the affected area	nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent to=obl

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