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title: In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life.… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life. What's wrong? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Asthma and inhalers

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In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** take, cure, be · **To what, where:** one puff, cartoon

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This is test 5 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine 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/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:1
# text = In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | a boy | one puff |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent puff=Value in cartoon=Location |
| 2 | **cure** | present · passive | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of asthma for life | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: of asthma=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's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Inhalers only make asthma worse over time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:o1:1
# text = Inhalers only make asthma worse over time
1	Inhalers	inhaler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Inhalers | asthma |  |  | time | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset asthma=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, one puff cures it for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, one puff cures it for ever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present | Nothing | puff |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Inhalers control asthma, they don't cure it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:o3:1
# text = Inhalers control asthma, they don't cure it
1	Inhalers	inhaler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	control	control	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **control** | present | Inhalers | asthma |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asthma=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | Inhalers *= inhaler* | asthma |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Asthma isn't real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:14-asthma-and-inhalers:t5:o4:1
# text = Asthma isn't real
1	Asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Asthma |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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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