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description: It is given that a child is experiencing an asthma attack. Select the appropriate posture. Exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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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# Exam question 3 · Asthma and inhalers

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It is given that a child is experiencing an asthma attack. Select the appropriate posture.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, you · **What happens:** give, experience, select · **To what, where:** It, asthma attack, appropriate posture

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» 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/14-asthma-and-inhalers/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a child is experiencing an asthma attack.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:1
# text = It is given that a child is experiencing an asthma attack.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	experiencing	experience	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | present · progressive | a child | a asthma attack |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attack=Stimulus |

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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:* Select the appropriate posture.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:2
# text = Select the appropriate posture.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	posture	posture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the appropriate posture |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent posture=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lying flat upon the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:o1:1
# text = Lying flat upon the back
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the back |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon back=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Standing, with the arms raised

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:o2:1
# text = Standing, with the arms raised
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the arms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **raise** | participle |  | the arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Seated upright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:o3:1
# text = Seated upright
1	Seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lying upon the front

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:e3:o4:1
# text = Lying upon the front
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the front |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon front=Location |

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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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