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description: Determine the principal purpose of plotting a child's height and weight upon a growth chart. Exam question 4 of lesson 25 «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Exam question 4 · The GP, the family doctor and the nurse

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Determine the principal purpose of plotting a child's height and weight upon a growth chart.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, principal purpose · **What happens:** determine, plot · **To what, where:** principal purpose, height

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 25 «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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/25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:e4:1
# text = Determine the principal purpose of plotting a child's height and weight upon a growth chart.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal purpose |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic |
| 2 | **plot** | gerund | the principal purpose *not said here* | a child's height and weight |  |  |  | upon a growth chart | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=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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To fix the cost of treatment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:e4:o1:1
# text = To fix the cost of treatment
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | to-infinitive |  | the cost of treatment |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cost=Patient |
| 2 | **cost** |  |  | treatment |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To determine eligibility for school admission

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:e4:o2:1
# text = To determine eligibility for school admission
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eligibility	eligibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | to-infinitive |  | eligibility |  |  |  | for school admission | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eligibility=Topic |

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

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To ascertain whether growth is proceeding satisfactorily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:e4:o3:1
# text = To ascertain whether growth is proceeding satisfactorily
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	satisfactorily	satisfactorily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **proceed** | present · progressive | growth |  |  |  |  | satisfactorily *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To select a sporting discipline

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:e4:o4:1
# text = To select a sporting discipline
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | to-infinitive |  | a sporting discipline |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discipline=Theme |
| 2 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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