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title: Identify the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn. — Burns, sunburn and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn. Exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 1 · Burns, sunburn and stings

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Identify the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, recommend, treat · **To what, where:** recommended initial treatment, minor thermal burn

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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/6-burns-sunburn-and-stings/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:e1:1
# text = Identify the recommended initial treatment of a minor thermal burn.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thermal	thermal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 initial treatment of a minor thermal burn |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treat** |  |  | a minor thermal burn |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Application of ice directly to the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:e1:o1:1
# text = Application of ice directly to the skin
1	Application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Application of butter or other fats to retain moisture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:e1:o2:1
# text = Application of butter or other fats to retain moisture
1	Application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fats	fat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	moisture	moisture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | to-infinitive |  | moisture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** |  | butter |  |  |  |  |  | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cooling beneath cool running water for twenty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:e1:o3:1
# text = Cooling beneath cool running water for twenty minutes
1	Cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute | beneath cool running water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Application of toothpaste to the affected area

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:6-burns-sunburn-and-stings:e1:o4:1
# text = Application of toothpaste to the affected area
1	Application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	affected	affected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** |  | toothpaste |  |  |  |  | to the affected area | nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

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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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