Test 8 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

Why should children not take adult medicine on their own?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: not take · To what, where: adult medicine, own

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 take	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 medicine	amod
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	should	children	adult medicine		children's own			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme on own=Destination

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

Medicine always tastes bad for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 tastes	advmod
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tastes	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Medicine					for children; always, bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Adult medicine never works on children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 medicine	amod
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present	Adult medicine					on children	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on child=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Children's doses are different and adult medicine can harm them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 doses	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	doses	dose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 different	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 harm	cc
7	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 medicine	amod
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 harm	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 harm	aux
10	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 different	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children's doses					different property	tree rules
2	harm	can	adult medicine	doses = dose					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

Children are not ill often enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ill	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	often	often	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Children					enough, ill, often property	tree rules

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