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title: Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to… — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to the retina, rendering distant objects indistinct. Exam question 1 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 1 · The optician and glasses

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Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to the retina, rendering distant objects indistinct.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, bring, focus, render · **To what, where:** condition, light, anterior, distant objects

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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/27-the-optician-and-glasses/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e1:1
# text = Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to the retina, rendering distant objects indistinct.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	focus	focus	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	anterior	anterior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	retina	retina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rendering	render	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the condition |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present · passive |  | light |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **focus** | to-infinitive |  | anterior |  |  |  | to the retina | tree rules |
| 4 | **render** | gerund |  | distant objects |  |  |  | indistinct *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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Cataract

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e1:o1:1
# text = Cataract
1	Cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Myopia, or short sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e1:o2:1
# text = Myopia, or short sight
1	Myopia	myopia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Amblyopia, or lazy eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e1:o3:1
# text = Amblyopia, or lazy eye
1	Amblyopia	amblyopia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Colour blindness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e1:o4:1
# text = Colour blindness
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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