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# Exam question 2 · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

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Whereas a friend with diabetes appears shaky, pale and confused, determine the appropriate course of action.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** appear, determine · **To what, where:** appropriate course

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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/82-getting-better-and-medicines/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:e2:1
# text = Whereas a friend with diabetes appears shaky, pale and confused, determine the appropriate course of action.
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present |  |  |  |  |  | whereas a friend with diabetes; shaky *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **determine** | infinitive |  | the appropriate course of action |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic |

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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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Give the friend some of one's own medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:e2:o1:1
# text = Give the friend some of one's own medicine
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | some | the friend |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient some=Theme |
| 2 | **medicine** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Allow the friend to sleep it off without help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:e2:o2:1
# text = Allow the friend to sleep it off without help
1	Allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the friend |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer friend=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sleep off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the friend *not said here* | friend |  |  |  | without help | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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

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Inform an adult at once, as the blood sugar may be too low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:e2:o3:1
# text = Inform an adult at once, as the blood sugar may be too low
1	Inform	inform	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | may | the blood sugar |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wait until the end of the school day to mention it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:e2:o4:1
# text = Wait until the end of the school day to mention it
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | until the end of the school day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | end |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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