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title: Identify the principal daily treatment for eczema. — Eczema and other skin troubles · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal daily treatment for eczema. Exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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 2 · Eczema and other skin troubles

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Identify the principal daily treatment for eczema.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal daily treatment

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal daily treatment for eczema.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eczema	eczema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal daily treatment |  |  |  | for eczema | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent treatment=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Avoidance of all contact with water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles:e2:o1:1
# text = Avoidance of all contact with water
1	Avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** |  |  | all contact with water |  |  |  |  | nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Daily courses of antibiotics

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles:e2:o2:1
# text = Daily courses of antibiotics
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Daily application of perfumed soap to the affected skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles:e2:o3:1
# text = Daily application of perfumed soap to the affected skin
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	affected	affected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perfume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **apply** |  | perfumed soap |  |  |  |  | to the affected skin | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Regular application of emollients

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles:e2:o4:1
# text = Regular application of emollients
1	Regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	emollients	emollient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** |  | emollients |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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