--- title: Identify the persons who developed penicillin into a usable medicine… — Light, machines and medicine: how the… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the persons who developed penicillin into a usable medicine during the nineteen-forties. Exam question 1 of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Light, machines and medicine: how the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang… Identify the persons who developed penicillin into a usable medicine during the nineteen-forties. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, persons · **What happens:** identify, develop · **To what, where:** persons, penicillin, usable medicine This is exam question 1 of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:e1:1 # text = Identify the persons who developed penicillin into a usable medicine during the nineteen-forties. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 developed develop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 penicillin penicillin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 usable usable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 during during ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 forties forty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the persons | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **develop** | past | the persons | penicillin | | a usable medicine | during the nineteen forties | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent penicillin=Material into medicine=Product | 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 {#o1} Alexander Fleming alone, within a single day ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:e1:o1:1 # text = Alexander Fleming alone, within a single day 1 Alexander Alexander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Fleming Fleming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 alone alone ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 within within ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their colleagues ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:e1:o2:1 # text = Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their colleagues 1 Howard Howard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Florey Florey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Ernst Ernst PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Chain Chain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 colleagues colleague NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Edward Jenner and Onesimus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:e1:o3:1 # text = Edward Jenner and Onesimus 1 Edward Edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Jenner Jenner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Onesimus Onesimus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Karl Benz and Henry Ford ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:e1:o4:1 # text = Karl Benz and Henry Ford 1 Karl Karl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Benz Benz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 Ford Ford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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