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title: Identify the most frequent cause of sore throats in children. — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the most frequent cause of sore throats in children. Exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 1 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

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Identify the most frequent cause of sore throats in children.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, cause · **To what, where:** frequent cause, sore throats

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:e1:1
# text = Identify the most frequent cause of sore throats in children.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	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 frequent cause of sore throats in children |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | sore throats in children |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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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Consumption of cold confectionery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:e1:o1:1
# text = Consumption of cold confectionery
1	Consumption	consumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	confectionery	confectionery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** |  |  | cold confectionery |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Excessive use of the voice alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:e1:o2:1
# text = Excessive use of the voice alone
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** |  |  | the voice |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bacterial infection invariably requiring a course of antibiotics

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:e1:o3:1
# text = Bacterial infection invariably requiring a course of antibiotics
1	Bacterial	bacterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | gerund | Bacterial infection *not said here* | a course of antibiotics |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme course=Precondition |

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

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Viral infection, which commonly resolves within one week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:e1:o4:1
# text = Viral infection, which commonly resolves within one week
1	Viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	resolves	resolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | present | Viral infection |  |  |  | week | commonly *property* | tree rules |

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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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