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title: Oisin in Dublin: "grand, the young one's ear infection cost nothing,… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Oisin in Dublin: "grand, the young one's ear infection cost nothing, but Mam paid when I went!" (grand = fine). What explains it? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Healthcare: who pays when you are ill

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Oisin in Dublin: "grand, the young one's ear infection cost nothing, but Mam paid when I went!" (grand = fine). What explains it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ear infection, Mam, I, young one · **What happens:** cost, pay, go, infect, explain · **To what, where:** nothing, infection

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Healthcare: who pays when you are ill» of the politics 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/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Oisin in Dublin: "grand, the young one's ear infection cost nothing, but Mam paid when I went!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:1
# text = Oisin in Dublin: "grand, the young one's ear infection cost nothing, but Mam paid when I went!"
1	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Mam	Mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** *in a quote* | present | the young one's ear infection | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value |
| 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | past | Mam |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **infect** *in a quote* |  | the young one |  |  |  |  |  | nom infection «state transitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* (grand = fine).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:2
# text = (grand = fine).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 3:* What explains it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:3
# text = What explains it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present |  | infection |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Oisin's GP was a tourist, so he did not charge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:o1:1
# text = Oisin's GP was a tourist, so he did not charge
1	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Oisin's GP | a tourist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **charge** | past · do-support | Oisin | a tourist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tourist=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Free GP visits were extended to young children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:o2:1
# text = Free GP visits were extended to young children
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | past · passive |  | Free GP visits | young children |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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GP visits became free for every person in Ireland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:o3:1
# text = GP visits became free for every person in Ireland
1	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | GP visits |  |  |  |  | for every person in Ireland; free *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ear infections are always free to treat, wherever you live

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill:t10:o4:1
# text = Ear infections are always free to treat, wherever you live
1	Ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ear infections |  |  |  |  | always, free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | to-infinitive | Ear infections *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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