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title: Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract. — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract. Exam question 4 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; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 4 · The optician and glasses

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Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, employ · **To what, where:** treatment, cases

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e4:1
# text = Determine the treatment ordinarily employed in cases of cataract.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cataract	cataract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the treatment |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Topic |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | the treatment *not said here* |  | cases of cataract |  | ordinarily *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Surgical replacement of the clouded lens with an artificial lens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e4:o1:1
# text = Surgical replacement of the clouded lens with an artificial lens
1	Surgical	surgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	replacement	replacement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	lens	lens	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lens	lens	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **replace** |  |  | the clouded lens with a artificial lens |  |  |  |  | nom replacement «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The application of an eye patch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e4:o2:1
# text = The application of an eye patch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** |  | a eye patch |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No treatment exists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e4:o3:1
# text = No treatment exists
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | no treatment |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dietary supplementation with carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:e4:o4:1
# text = Dietary supplementation with carrots
1	Dietary	dietary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	supplementation	supplementation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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