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description: Identify the principle by which patients are attended to in an emergency department. Exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Exam question 1 · Helpers in town and building sites

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Identify the principle by which patients are attended to in an emergency department.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, principle · **What happens:** identify, attend · **To what, where:** principle, patients, emergency department

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» of the everyday 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/everyday/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:e1:1
# text = Identify the principle by which patients are attended to in an emergency department.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	principle	principle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principle |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent principle=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | present · passive | the principle | patients |  | a emergency department |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |

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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}

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The most serious cases are attended to first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:e1:o1:1
# text = The most serious cases are attended to first
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | present · passive |  | the serious cases |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Patients who pay more are attended to first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:e1:o2:1
# text = Patients who pay more are attended to first
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | Patients | more |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |
| 2 | **attend** | present · passive |  | Patients |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Patients are seen strictly in order of arrival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:e1:o3:1
# text = Patients are seen strictly in order of arrival
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Patients |  | order of arrival |  | strictly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** |  |  | arrival |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children are invariably seen before adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:e1:o4:1
# text = Children are invariably seen before adults
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Children |  |  | before adults | invariably *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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**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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