Test 14 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

headache, mum's pills r right there, 2 should do it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pills, 2 · What happens: be, do · To what, where: headache

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pills	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mum	case
5	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 there	nsubj
6	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 headache	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 2	punct
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 do	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mum's pills					right, there property	tree rules
2	do	should	2	headache					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

Take three to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	5 safe	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	three					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, two always works faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 works	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 works	advmod
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	two					always, fast property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, ask an adult, the wrong medicine or dose can poison you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poison	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 medicine	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 medicine	det
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 medicine	amod
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adult	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dose	cc
11	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 medicine	conj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 poison	aux
13	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 poison	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	poison	can	a adult	you					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

Yes, adult pills are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 same	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pills	compound
4	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 same	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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