Test 1 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

Which is true about children and grown-ups' medicines?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grown ups · What happens: be, grow, medicine

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 medicines	cc
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ups	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 medicines	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 ups	case
11	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		about children; true property	tree rules
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	medicine		grown ups		nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Medicines work the same for every age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 work	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 age	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 age	det
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Medicines	the same			for every age		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent same=Theme for age=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A child can safely take half of any adult tablet without a problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 tablet	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 tablet	det
9	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tablet	amod
10	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 half	nmod
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 problem	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 problem	det
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can	a child	half of any adult tablet				without a problem; safely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Adult medicines can harm children, because doses are different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 medicines	amod
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harm	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 harm	aux
4	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harm	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 different	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 different	mark
8	doses	dose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 different	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 different	cop
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 harm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	can	Adult medicines	children					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
2	is	present	doses					different property	tree rules

Option 4

Only liquid medicines are dangerous to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 medicines	advmod
2	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 medicines	amod
3	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	liquid medicines					to children; dangerous property	tree rules

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