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title: Mum's kid has 39° fever at 2am but is awake and talking. Who's best… — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum's kid has 39° fever at 2am but is awake and talking. Who's best to ring first in England? Test 4 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

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Mum's kid has 39° fever at 2am but is awake and talking. Who's best to ring first in England?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** have, be, talk, ring · **To what, where:** 39 ° fever, 2, England

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum's kid has 39° fever at 2am but is awake and talking.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:1
# text = Mum's kid has 39° fever at 2am but is awake and talking.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	7	compound	_	_
7	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mum's kid | 39 ° fever |  | 2  am |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mum's kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | Mum's kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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:* Who's best to ring first in England?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:2
# text = Who's best to ring first in England?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | England |  | first *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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999

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:o1:1
# text = 999
1	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:o2:1
# text = The school
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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111

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:o3:1
# text = 111
1	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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911

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t4:o4:1
# text = 911
1	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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