--- title: Identify the person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a cough medicine may be taken alongside existing tablets. Exam question 2 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ Identify the person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a cough medicine may be taken alongside existing tablets. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** identify, consult, regard, take, exist · **To what, where:** person, cough medicine This is exam question 2 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:e2:1 # text = Identify the person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a cough medicine may be taken alongside existing tablets. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 appropriately appropriately ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 consulted consult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 regarding regard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 mark _ _ 8 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 15 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 existing exist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 tablets tablet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **consult** | participle | | the person *not said here* | | | | appropriately *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **regard** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | may · passive | the person *not said here* | a cough medicine | | | | alongside existing tablets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **exist** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A pharmacist ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:e2:o1:1 # text = A pharmacist 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pharmacist pharmacist NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A school friend ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:e2:o2:1 # text = A school friend 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A bus driver ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:e2:o3:1 # text = A bus driver 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A newsagent ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:e2:o4:1 # text = A newsagent 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 newsagent newsagent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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