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title: Identify the principal purpose of a children's hospice. — Illness, hospitals and children who ar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal purpose of a children's hospice. Exam question 2 of lesson 59 «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics 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 2 · Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill

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Identify the principal purpose of a children's hospice.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, hospice · **What happens:** identify, purpose · **To what, where:** principal purpose

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 59 «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal purpose of a children's hospice.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hospice	hospice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 principal purpose of a children's hospice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme |
| 2 | **purpose** |  | a children's hospice |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The confinement of children who have misbehaved at home or at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill:e2:o1:1
# text = The confinement of children who have misbehaved at home or at school
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	misbehaved	misbehave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **misbehave** | present · perfect | children |  |  | home or school |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **confine** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom confinement «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The performance of surgical operations exclusively, upon children alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill:e2:o2:1
# text = The performance of surgical operations exclusively, upon children alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	surgical	surgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** |  |  | surgical operations |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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

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The provision of comfort and care to gravely ill children and their families

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill:e2:o3:1
# text = The provision of comfort and care to gravely ill children and their families
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	gravely	gravely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** |  | comfort and care |  |  |  |  | to gravely ill children and children's families | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The accommodation of families who are upon holiday by the sea during the summer months

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill:e2:o4:1
# text = The accommodation of families who are upon holiday by the sea during the summer months
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accommodation	accommodation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | families |  |  |  |  | upon holiday; by the sea | tree rules |
| 2 | **accommodate** |  |  | families |  |  | during the summer months |  | nom accommodation «event transitive»: of=patient during=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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