Test 1 · ★ · How medicines work

Calpol fixed my headache, so it cured whatever caused it, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Calpol, headache, whatever · What happens: fix, cure, cause · To what, where: headache

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «How medicines work» of the medicine 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	Calpol	Calpol	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 headache	nmod:poss
4	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cured	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 cured	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cured	nsubj
8	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 caused	nsubj
10	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cured	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caused	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cured	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 fixed	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fixed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fix	past	Calpol	my headache	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent headache=Patient
2	cure	past	headache		tree rules
3	cause	past	whatever	headache	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, painkillers always cure the cause

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	painkillers	painkiller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cure	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 cure	advmod
5	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cause	det
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	painkillers	the cause				always property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cause=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it eases the pain while the body heals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eases	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eases	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eases	nsubj
4	eases	ease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pain	det
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eases	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 heals	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heals	nsubj
10	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eases	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ease	present	it	the pain					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
2	heal	present	the body						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, and it stops all future headaches too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stops	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stops	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 future	advmod
7	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 headaches	amod
8	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stops	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	5 stops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	it	future headaches					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality headache=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, it makes headaches worse later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	headaches				bad, late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material headache=Product

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