--- title: ear's killing me, mate says pour olive oil in it to cure it. yeah? — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: ear's killing me, mate says pour olive oil in it to cure it. yeah? Test 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Sore throats, ears and eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/) / t1 # Test 1 · Sore throats, ears and eyes ear's killing me, mate says pour olive oil in it to cure it. yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** kill, say, pour, cure · **To what, where:** me, olive oil, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t1:1 # text = ear's killing me, mate says pour olive oil in it to cure it. yeah? 1 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 9 olive olive NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 17 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | gerund | ear *not said here* | me | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ear | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pour** | present | | olive oil | | mate | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | | 4 | **cure** | to-infinitive | | mate | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | 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} Yeah, hot oil works best ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t1:o1:1 # text = Yeah, hot oil works best 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | hot oil | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} No, pour cold water in instead ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t1:o2:1 # text = No, pour cold water in instead 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 pour pour VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour in** | imperative | you *not said here* | cold water | | | | instead *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, the warm oil kills all the germs right in there ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t1:o3:1 # text = Yeah, the warm oil kills all the germs right in there 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 right right ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | present | the warm oil | all germs | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} No, putting oil in won't cure an ear infection ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t1:o4:1 # text = No, putting oil in won't cure an ear infection 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | gerund | | oil | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oil=Goal | | 2 | **not** **cure** | future | | a ear infection | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer infection=Source | **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. 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