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title: Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street. What should you do? — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street. What should you do? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

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Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street. What should you do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Crowd, you · **What happens:** gather, do · **To what, where:** ambulance

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:1
# text = Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street.
1	Crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present | Crowd |  |  | a ambulance |  | in the street | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should you do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:2
# text = What should you do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ask the paramedics questions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:o1:1
# text = Ask the paramedics questions
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	paramedics	paramedics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the paramedics questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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

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Move aside and let them work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:o2:1
# text = Move aside and let them work
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Go closer to film it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:o3:1
# text = Go closer to film it
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	film	film	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **film** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Block the road to help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t9:o4:1
# text = Block the road to help
1	Block	block	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | imperative | you *not said here* | the road |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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