Exam question 1 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a dose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: dose

This is exam question 1 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dose	det
10	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a dose				of the following statements; accurately 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

The name of the doctor who prescribes it to the patient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 doctor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 prescribes	nsubj
7	prescribes	prescribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 name	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 prescribes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 patient	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 patient	det
11	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prescribes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prescribe	present	the name of the doctor	doctor				to the patient	tree rules
2	name			the doctor					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The illness which a medicine treats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 treats	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treats	nsubj
6	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 illness	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present	a medicine	the illness					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient

Option 3

The place at which medicine is sold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sold	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 place	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sold	aux:pass
7	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · passive		the place at which medicine					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The amount of medicine to take and how often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 amount	det
2	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 medicine	case
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 amount	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 amount	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 often	cc
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	6 take	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	amount			medicine					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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