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# Exam question 3 · Snap! Breaking a bone

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the order of treatment in an emergency department?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, order · **To what, where:** order, emergency department, treatment

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1 «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:e3:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the order of treatment in an emergency department?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the order of treatment |  | a emergency department |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | treatment |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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}

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Patients are treated in alphabetical order

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:e3:o1:1
# text = Patients are treated in alphabetical order
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present · passive |  | Patients |  | alphabetical order |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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

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Patients are assessed on arrival and the most urgent treated first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:e3:o2:1
# text = Patients are assessed on arrival and the most urgent treated first
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	assessed	assess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assess** | present · passive |  | Patients |  | arrival |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** | participle · passive |  | the urgent |  |  |  | first *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children are invariably treated before adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:e3:o3:1
# text = Children are invariably treated before adults
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present · passive |  | Children |  |  | before adults | invariably *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Patients are treated strictly in the order in which they arrive at the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:e3:o4:1
# text = Patients are treated strictly in the order in which they arrive at the door
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present · passive |  | Patients |  | the order |  | strictly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | Patients *= patient* |  |  | the order |  | at the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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