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title: Fatima asks: before anaesthetics, were people awake for operations? — Light, machines and medicine: how the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fatima asks: before anaesthetics, were people awake for operations? Test 6 · ★★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fatima asks: before anaesthetics, were people awake for operations?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fatima · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** people

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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. 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:t6:1
# text = Fatima asks: before anaesthetics, were people awake for operations?
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anaesthetics	anaesthetic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Fatima |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | people |  |  | before anaesthetics |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, surgery was always painless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:t6:o1:1
# text = No, surgery was always painless
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	painless	painless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | surgery |  |  |  |  | always, painless *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, until ether was shown in 1846

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, until ether was shown in 1846
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past · passive |  | ether |  |  |  | in 1846 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in 1846=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, there was no surgery at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:t6:o3:1
# text = No, there was no surgery at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no surgery |  |  | all; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only in 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day:t6:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only in 2000
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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