Exam question 1 · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

Identify the principal reason for which a child ought not to consume medicine prescribed for another person.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, not consume, prescribe · To what, where: principal reason, medicine

This is exam question 1 of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 consume	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consume	nsubj
9	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 consume	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 consume	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 consume	mark
12	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consume	obj
14	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 medicine	acl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 person	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prescribed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not consume	ought	a child	medicine	for the principal reason	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Asset
3	prescribe	participle		medicine not said here	for another person	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was chosen for that person's body and illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chosen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 body	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 person	case
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 illness	cc
10	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		It				for that person's body and illness	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for body=Beneficiary

Option 2

All medicine loses its effect when it is shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	nsubj
3	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 effect	nmod:poss
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 shared	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shared	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shared	aux:pass
9	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loses	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	present	all medicine	medicine's effect	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
2	share	present · passive		medicine	tree rules
3	effect		medicine		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It will taste worse to a person who is not ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taste	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 taste	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taste	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ill	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ill	advmod
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	future	It					to a person; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to person=Experiencer
2	not is	present	a person					ill property	tree rules

Option 4

Medicine is only effective once it has been paid for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effective	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 effective	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 effective	advmod
4	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 paid	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 paid	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 paid	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 paid	aux:pass
9	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 effective	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Medicine					effective property	tree rules
2	pay	present · perfect · passive		Medicine					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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