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title: Identify the recommended manner of applying cold to a recent injury. — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the recommended manner of applying cold to a recent injury. Exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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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# Exam question 2 · Sprains, strains and bruises

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Identify the recommended manner of applying cold to a recent injury.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, recommended manner · **What happens:** identify, recommend, apply · **To what, where:** recommended manner

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:e2:1
# text = Identify the recommended manner of applying cold to a recent injury.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	applying	apply	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 recommended manner |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **apply** | gerund | the recommended manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn use-105.1 «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 {#o1}

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Deferred until at least one week after the injury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:e2:o1:1
# text = Deferred until at least one week after the injury
1	Deferred	defer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defer** | participle |  |  |  |  | after the injury; week |  | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Applied directly to the skin without interruption overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:e2:o2:1
# text = Applied directly to the skin without interruption overnight
1	Applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	interruption	interruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the skin; without interruption; overnight *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Wrapped in cloth for some fifteen to twenty minutes at a time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:e2:o3:1
# text = Wrapped in cloth for some fifteen to twenty minutes at a time
1	Wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | cloth | minute; time |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Applied with vigorous rubbing of the joint until the skin is numb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:e2:o4:1
# text = Applied with vigorous rubbing of the joint until the skin is numb
1	Applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rubbing	rubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with vigorous rubbing of the joint | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the skin |  |  |  |  | numb *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rub** |  |  | the joint |  |  |  |  | nom rubbing «phenomenon 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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