Test 5 · Sore throats, ears and eyes
Why do doctors often wait before giving antibiotics for an earache?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctors · What happens: do, wait, give · To what, where: antibiotics
This is test 5 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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=Int | 2 do | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 3 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 giving | mark |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wait | advcl |
| 8 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 giving | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 earache | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 earache | det |
| 11 | earache | earache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | doctors not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | present | doctors | often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | doctors not said here | antibiotics | for a earache | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme for earache=Asset |
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
Doctors are lazy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lazy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lazy | cop |
| 3 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Doctors | lazy property | tree rules |
Option 2
Ears can't be treated
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 treated | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 treated | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 treated | aux:pass |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not treat | can · passive | Ears | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
Option 3
Antibiotics make ears worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Antibiotics | ears | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ear=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Most ear infections get better on their own in about three days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 infections | amod |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 infections | compound |
| 3 | infections | infection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 three | advmod |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Most ear infections | day | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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