Test 5 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

A ten-year-old in Brisbane has a fever. Who should decide on medicine and how much?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: year old · What happens: have, decide · To what, where: fever

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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

Sentence 1: A ten-year-old in Brisbane has a fever.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ten	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 has	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Brisbane	case
8	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fever	det
11	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a year old	a fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient

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: Who should decide on medicine and how much?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 decide	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 decide	aux
3	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decide	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 much	cc
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decide	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	should						on medicine	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on medicine=Topic

The options

Option 1

The child, using one of the adult tablets from the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 using	punct
4	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 child	acl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 using	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tablets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tablets	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tablets	compound
9	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shelf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	the child not said here	one of the adult tablets		the shelf			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A grown-up, using a children's medicine and dose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grown	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 using	punct
6	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grown	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 medicine	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 children	case
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dose	cc
12	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 medicine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	gerund		a children's medicine and dose	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
3	medicine		a children		nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A friend who once took the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 took	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 friend	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a friend	the same thing				once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

The child, by guessing the right amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guessing	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 guessing	mark
5	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 child	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 amount	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amount	amod
8	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	gerund		the right amount					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/t5/