Test 10 · ★ · How medicines work

Why do doctors keep watching a medicine even after it's on sale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctors, medicine · What happens: keep, watch, be · To what, where: medicine

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 medicine	det
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watching	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	13 sale	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	13 sale	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sale	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sale	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 sale	case
13	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watching	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	doctors			tree rules
2	watch	gerund	doctors not said here	a medicine		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
3	is	present	medicine		after sale	tree rules

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

To count the money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive		the money					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rare side effects can show up in many users

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 effects	amod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effects	compound
3	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 show	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 users	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 users	amod
9	users	user	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	can	Rare side effects			many users			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in user=Location

Option 3

To change its colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 colour	nmod:poss
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive		its colour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 4

They don't, they stop watching once it's in the shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj
7	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 shops	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shops	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 shops	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 shops	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shops	det
13	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watching	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not do	present	They		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	they		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	watch	gerund	they not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	it	the shops	tree rules

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