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title: Friend's on his back, not waking, but breathing. What do you do afte… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Friend's on his back, not waking, but breathing. What do you do after calling 999? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» 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 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

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Friend's on his back, not waking, but breathing. What do you do after calling 999?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Friend, you · **What happens:** not wake, breathe, do, call · **To what, where:** 999 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» 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/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Friend's on his back, not waking, but breathing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:1
# text = Friend's on his back, not waking, but breathing.
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wake** | gerund | Friend on Friend's back |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund | Friend on Friend's back *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 do you do after calling 999?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:2
# text = What do you do after calling 999?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | you *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sit him up and give him water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:o1:1
# text = Sit him up and give him water
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | water | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Roll him onto his side in the recovery position

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:o2:1
# text = Roll him onto his side in the recovery position
1	Roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | his side |  | in the recovery position | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient onto side=Recipient in position=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shake him hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:o3:1
# text = Shake him hard
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Leave him on his back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t1:o4:1
# text = Leave him on his back
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
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 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | his back |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=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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