--- title: Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. What might he have? — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics description: Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. What might he have? Test 2 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [The optician and glasses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/) / t2 # Test 2 · The optician and glasses Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. What might he have? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Zak · **What happens:** squint, read, have · **To what, where:** book This is test 2 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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/27-the-optician-and-glasses/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:1 # text = Zak squints at the board but reads his book fine. 1 Zak Zak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 squints squint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squint** | present | Zak | | | | | at the board | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at board=Theme | | 2 | **read** | present | Zak *not said here* | Zak's book | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* What might he have? ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:2 # text = What might he have? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | might | Zak | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Short sight ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:o1:1 # text = Short sight 1 Short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Long sight ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:o2:1 # text = Long sight 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Colour blindness ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:o3:1 # text = Colour blindness 1 Colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 blindness blindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A cataract ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t2:o4:1 # text = A cataract 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cataract cataract NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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