Test 9 · ★ · How medicines work
Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops. Problem?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: rub · To what, where: eye
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 3 rubbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugh | punct |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 rubbed | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 drops | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drops | det |
| 9 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | my eye | after the drops | straight property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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: Problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Problem | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It helps the drops work much quicker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drops | det |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | nsubj |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 helps | ccomp |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 quicker | advmod |
| 7 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 work | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | It | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | present | the drops | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It makes the drops stronger and last longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drops | det |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 last | cc |
| 7 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | conj |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 last | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the drops | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material drop=Product | |||
| 2 | last | infinitive | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rubbing can push the medicine out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 push | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 push | aux |
| 3 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 medicine | det |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 push | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 push | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | push out | can | the medicine | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
Option 4
No, rub hard to spread the drops round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 hard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 spread | mark |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drops | det |
| 8 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 spread | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spread | to-infinitive | the drops | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=Theme |
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