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title: Identify the principal function of a hospital chaplain. — Scary films, games, hospitals and what… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal function of a hospital chaplain. Exam question 2 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» 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 · Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps

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Identify the principal function of a hospital chaplain.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal function

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» 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/71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal function of a hospital chaplain.
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	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chaplain	chaplain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 function of a hospital chaplain |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent function=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To provide comfort and spiritual care to patients and their families

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e2:o1:1
# text = To provide comfort and spiritual care to patients and their families
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	provide	provide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | to-infinitive |  | comfort and spiritual care | patients and patients's families |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme to patient=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To supervise the hospital's financial accounts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e2:o2:1
# text = To supervise the hospital's financial accounts
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	supervise	supervise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supervise** | to-infinitive |  | the hospital's financial accounts |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent account=Eventuality |
| 2 | **account** |  | the hospital |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To determine which patients shall be admitted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e2:o3:1
# text = To determine which patients shall be admitted
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | shall · passive |  | which patients |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To perform surgical operations upon patients

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e2:o4:1
# text = To perform surgical operations upon patients
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	perform	perform	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	surgical	surgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  | surgical operations |  |  |  | upon patients | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=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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