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Test 8 · ★★ · Going to the doctor and the chemist

Mum, a bit embarrassed: "It's just my tablets, love, I take them every day." What is best?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit, I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: tablets

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Mum, a bit embarrassed: "It's just my tablets, love, I take them every day."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embarrassed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embarrassed	obl:unmarked
5	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 tablets	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tablets	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tablets	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tablets	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 tablets	advmod
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tablets	nmod:poss
12	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 embarrassed	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tablets	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
17	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 embarrassed	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 embarrassed	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 embarrassed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	bit	my tablets and love					tree rules
2	take in a quote	present	I	tablets = tablet			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Accept it; daily medicine is common and private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Accept	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 medicine	amod
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 common	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Accept	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 private	cc
9	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 common	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	imperative	you not said here	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	daily medicine					common property	tree rules
3	be		daily medicine not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Tell everyone at school about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone			about school; about school	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3

Take one to see what it does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 does	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	one					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	present	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Hide the tablets so she cannot take them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tablets	det
3	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 take	advmod
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hide	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the tablets					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient
2	not take	can	she	tablets = tablet					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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