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title: A child's temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius. What does it show? — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics
description: A child's temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius. What does it show? Test 9 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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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# Test 9 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

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A child's temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius. What does it show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** temperature · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** 36.8 degrees

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This is test 9 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A child's temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:1
# text = A child's temperature is 36.8 degrees Celsius.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	36.8	36.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a child's temperature | 36.8 degrees |  |  |  | Celsius *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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:* What does it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:2
# text = What does it show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | temperature |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A normal temperature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:o1:1
# text = A normal temperature
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dangerous cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:o2:1
# text = Dangerous cold
1	Dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A high fever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:o3:1
# text = A high fever
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That the thermometer is broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:94-medicines-doctors-hospitals:t9:o4:1
# text = That the thermometer is broken
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | that thermometer |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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