Test 11 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
Grandma takes eight pills a day. More pills means healthier?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma, More pills · What happens: take, mean · To what, where: eight pills
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Grandma takes eight pills a day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pills | nummod |
| 4 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Grandma | eight pills | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=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: More pills means healthier?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 pills | amod |
| 2 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | healthier | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | More pills | healthy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, she should stop them all herself and see how she feels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 stop | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 feels | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feels | nsubj |
| 13 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | should | she | them = they | herself = she obl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | she not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | she | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, a pharmacist can review whether she needs them all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 review | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pharmacist | det |
| 4 | pharmacist | pharmacist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 review | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 review | aux |
| 6 | review | review | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 needs | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 review | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needs | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | review | can | a pharmacist | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | need | present | pharmacist | them = they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, more is better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 more | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 better | advcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, double them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 double | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | double | double | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 double | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | double | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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