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title: "nurses are just doctors' helpers" — right? — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: "nurses are just doctors' helpers" — right? Test 1 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · The GP, the family doctor and the nurse

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"nurses are just doctors' helpers" — right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nurses · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** helpers

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This is test 1 of lesson 25 «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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/25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:t1:1
# text = "nurses are just doctors' helpers" — right?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | nurses | doctors's helpers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Yes, they can't give jabs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, they can't give jabs
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	jabs	jab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | can | they | jabs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jab=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they're doctors in training

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:t1:o2:1
# text = No, they're doctors in training
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | doctors |  | training |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, they only fetch things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, they only fetch things
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | present | they | things |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they're trained professionals with their own work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse:t1:o4:1
# text = No, they're trained professionals with their own work
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	trained	trained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	professionals	professional	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | trained professionals |  |  |  | with professionals's own work | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** |  | professionals *= professional* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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