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title: In hospital a girl does not understand why she needs a drip. What ca… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: In hospital a girl does not understand why she needs a drip. What can she do? Test 8 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · Doctors, cuts and grazes

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In hospital a girl does not understand why she needs a drip. What can she do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** not understand, need, do · **To what, where:** hospital, drip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. 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/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In hospital a girl does not understand why she needs a drip.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:1
# text = In hospital a girl does not understand why she needs a drip.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | a girl |  |  | hospital |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **need** | present | girl | a drip |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drip=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What can she do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:2
# text = What can she do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Pull the drip out herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:o1:1
# text = Pull the drip out herself
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the drip |  |  |  | herself *= she* *obl* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ask the nurses or doctors to explain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:o2:1
# text = Ask the nurses or doctors to explain
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the nurses or doctors |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Wait until she is grown up to ask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:o3:1
# text = Wait until she is grown up to ask
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | present · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stay silent because it is rude to ask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t8:o4:1
# text = Stay silent because it is rude to ask
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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