Test 7 · ★ · How medicines work
In a cartoon, a baby climbs the cupboard and eats pills thinking they're sweets. What's the lesson?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby, pills, lesson · What happens: climb, eat, think, be · To what, where: cupboard, cartoon, pills, sweets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, a baby climbs the cupboard and eats pills thinking they're sweets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbs | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbs | nsubj |
| 7 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cupboard | det |
| 9 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbs | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eats | cc |
| 11 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbs | conj |
| 12 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eats | obj |
| 13 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 eats | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sweets | nsubj |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sweets | cop |
| 16 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thinking | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | a baby | the cupboard | a cartoon | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cupboard=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | present | a baby not said here | pills | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | a baby not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | pills = pill | sweets | 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.
Sentence 2: What's the lesson?
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 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | 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 lesson | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Pills are just sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweets | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweets | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 sweets | advmod |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pills | sweets | tree rules |
Option 2
Babies can't climb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 climb | advmod |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | can | Babies | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Keep only the sweets up high, pills can stay low
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sweets | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweets | det |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Keep | compound:prt |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stay | punct |
| 8 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | aux |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | imperative | you not said here | the sweets | high property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | can | pills | low property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Keep medicines locked up out of reach and sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 medicines | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 locked | compound:prt |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 reach | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 reach | case |
| 7 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sight | cc |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | medicines | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | medicines not said here | reach and sight | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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