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title: Identify the principal reason for which patients are required to abs… — The hospital ward, operations and anae… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which patients are required to abstain from food prior to a general anaesthetic. Exam question 1 of lesson 28 «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic

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Identify the principal reason for which patients are required to abstain from food prior to a general anaesthetic.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, require, abstain · **To what, where:** principal reason, patients, food

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» 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/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which patients are required to abstain from food prior to a general anaesthetic.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	abstain	abstain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	anaesthetic	anaesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	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 principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | present · passive |  | patients |  |  |  | for the principal reason | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **abstain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | food |  | prior a general anaesthetic | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from food=Eventuality |

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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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To render the anaesthetic more palatable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic:e1:o1:1
# text = To render the anaesthetic more palatable
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	render	render	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	anaesthetic	anaesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	palatable	palatable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | to-infinitive |  | the anaesthetic |  |  |  | palatable *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anaesthetic=Theme |

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

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To prevent the contents of the stomach from entering the lungs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic:e1:o2:1
# text = To prevent the contents of the stomach from entering the lungs
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | the contents of the stomach |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer contents=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund |  | the lungs |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lung=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To accelerate the healing of the wound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic:e1:o3:1
# text = To accelerate the healing of the wound
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	accelerate	accelerate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accelerate** | to-infinitive |  | the healing of the wound |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent healing=Patient |
| 2 | **heal** |  | the wound |  |  |  |  |  | nom healing «process intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To reduce the cost of hospital catering

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic:e1:o4:1
# text = To reduce the cost of hospital catering
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reduce	reduce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	catering	catering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | to-infinitive |  | the cost of hospital catering |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cost=Patient |
| 2 | **cost** |  |  | hospital catering |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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