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title: Identify the conduct appropriate to a person choking who remains abl… — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the conduct appropriate to a person choking who remains able to cough. Exam question 1 of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 · Food, drinks and feeling ill

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Identify the conduct appropriate to a person choking who remains able to cough.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** identify, choke, remain, cough · **To what, where:** conduct

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:e1:1
# text = Identify the conduct appropriate to a person choking who remains able to cough.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	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 conduct |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme |
| 2 | **choke** | gerund | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cough** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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The person should lie down and remain silent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:e1:o1:1
# text = The person should lie down and remain silent
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | should | the person |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The person should drink a large glass of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:e1:o2:1
# text = The person should drink a large glass of water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | should | the person | a large glass of water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The person should continue to cough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:e1:o3:1
# text = The person should continue to cough
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cough	cough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | should | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cough** | to-infinitive | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The person should be struck hard on the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:e1:o4:1
# text = The person should be struck hard on the head
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | should · passive |  | the person |  |  |  | on the head; hard *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument on head=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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