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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fever-reducing medication taken prior to sport? Exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 2 · Ill on match day: play or stay home?

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fever-reducing medication taken prior to sport?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, reduce, take, effect · **To what, where:** effect, fever reducing medication

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» 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/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fever-reducing medication taken prior to sport?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	medication	medication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the effect of fever reducing medication |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reduce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  | fever reducing medication *not said here* |  |  |  | prior sport | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **effect** |  |  | fever reducing medication |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It eradicates the infection entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home:e2:o1:1
# text = It eradicates the infection entirely
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eradicates	eradicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eradicate** | present | It | the infection |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It prevents transmission to teammates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home:e2:o2:1
# text = It prevents transmission to teammates
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	teammates	teammate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | present | It | transmission |  |  |  | to teammates | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer transmission=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It renders participation entirely safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home:e2:o3:1
# text = It renders participation entirely safe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	renders	render	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	safe	safe	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** | present | It | participation |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent participation=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It conceals the sign whilst the infection persists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home:e2:o4:1
# text = It conceals the sign whilst the infection persists
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conceals	conceal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	persists	persist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | present | It | the sign |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient |
| 2 | **persist** | present | the infection |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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