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title: State the effect of hiding or playing down pain. — Going to the doctor and staying togeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the effect of hiding or playing down pain. Exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds» 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 4 · Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds

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State the effect of hiding or playing down pain.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** State effect · **What happens:** hide, play down · **To what, where:** pain

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds» 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/332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:e4:1
# text = State the effect of hiding or playing down pain.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund | the State effect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **play down** | gerund | the State effect *not said here* | pain |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |

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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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An injury may be found late and heal worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:e4:o1:1
# text = An injury may be found late and heal worse
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	worse	badly	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | may · passive |  | a injury |  |  |  | late *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **heal** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It has no effect on treatment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:e4:o2:1
# text = It has no effect on treatment
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no effect |  | treatment |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It makes the doctor more careful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:e4:o3:1
# text = It makes the doctor more careful
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the doctor |  |  |  | careful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material doctor=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes an injury heal faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:e4:o4:1
# text = It makes an injury heal faster
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | a injury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heal** | infinitive | a injury *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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