Test 10 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
Forgot my morning medicine and the evening dose is in an hour. What should I do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: evening dose, my, I · What happens: forget, be, medicine, do · To what, where: morning medicine
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» 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: Forgot my morning medicine and the evening dose is in an hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 medicine | compound |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forgot | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hour | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dose | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dose | compound |
| 8 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hour | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hour | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hour | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 medicine | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forgot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | my morning medicine and a hour | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the evening dose | in a hour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | 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 should I do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Take three tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | three | tonight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Check the leaflet or ask; usually don't take two close together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaflet | det |
| 3 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 close | nummod |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | the leaflet | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not take | present · do-support | you not said here | two close | together, usually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent close=Theme |
Option 3
Throw the rest of the medicine away and start again tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throw | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 medicine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 medicine | det |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rest | nmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Throw | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 start | cc |
| 9 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Throw | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 start | advmod |
| 11 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 start | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | the rest of the medicine | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | infinitive | you not said here | again; tomorrow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Take both now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | both | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |
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