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Test 3 · ★ · How medicines work

Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine. What's the problem?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, my, problem · What happens: use, medicine, be · To what, where: kitchen teaspoon

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teaspoon	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teaspoon	compound
5	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 medicine	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 medicine	nmod:poss
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Mum	a kitchen teaspoon				for my medicine	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent teaspoon=Theme for medicine=Eventuality
2	medicine		my						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: What's the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Kitchen spoons are different sizes, so the dose may be wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoons	compound
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sizes	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sizes	cop
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sizes	amod
5	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrong	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 wrong	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dose	det
9	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrong	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wrong	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 wrong	cop
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sizes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kitchen spoons	different sizes					tree rules
2	is	may	the dose					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Metal spoons ruin the medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoons	compound
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruin	nsubj
3	ruin	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	present	Metal spoons	the medicine					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument medicine=Patient

Option 3

No problem at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 problem	det
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 problem	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Teaspoons are always too small for any dose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teaspoons	teaspoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 small	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 dose	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 dose	det
8	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Teaspoons					for any dose; always, small property	tree rules

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.

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