Exam question 4 · The right dose and never more than

State the recommended disposal of medicines whose date of expiry has passed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: date · What happens: recommend, pass

This is exam question 4 of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disposal	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 disposal	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 disposal	amod
4	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 medicines	case
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disposal	nmod
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 date	nmod:poss
8	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 expiry	case
10	expiry	expiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 date	nmod
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	aux
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 medicines	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disposal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pass	present · perfect	date of expiry						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Return to a pharmacy for safe disposal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 pharmacy	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pharmacy	det
4	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Return	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 disposal	case
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disposal	amod
7	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Return	nmod

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

Option 2

Disposal by flushing into the public sewer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 flushing	mark
3	flushing	flush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Disposal	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 sewer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sewer	det
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sewer	amod
7	sewer	sewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flush	gerund	Disposal not said here			the public sewer			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Disposal into a watercourse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 watercourse	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 watercourse	det
4	watercourse	watercourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Disposal	nmod

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

Option 4

Consumption without delay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	without	without	ADP	_	3 delay	case
3	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Consumption	nmod

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/e4/