Test 2 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
Your little sister's medicine is 5 ml and yours is 10 ml. Is one a mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: medicine, yours, little sister · What happens: be, medicine · To what, where: 5 ml, 10 ml, one mistake
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Your little sister's medicine is 5 ml and yours is 10 ml.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sister | case |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ml | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ml | cop |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 ml | nummod |
| 8 | ml | ml | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ml | cc |
| 10 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ml | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ml | cop |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 ml | nummod |
| 13 | ml | ml | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ml | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ml | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your little sister's medicine | 5 ml and 10 ml | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | yours | 10 ml | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | medicine | Your little sister | 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: Is one a mistake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistake | cop |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mistake | nummod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mistake | det |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a one mistake | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, but swap them anyway to be fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 swap | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swap | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 swap | cc |
| 4 | swap | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swap | obj |
| 6 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 4 swap | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fair | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fair | cop |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swap | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | present | them = they | anyway property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | fair property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Not necessarily; doses depend on age and weight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 necessarily | advmod |
| 2 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 5 depend | advmod |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 depend | punct |
| 4 | doses | dose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 depend | nsubj |
| 5 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depend | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weight | cc |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 age | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | doses | on age and weight | necessarily property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on age=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, all kids take exactly the same dose, whatever their size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 kids | det |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 dose | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dose | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dose | amod |
| 9 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whatever | punct |
| 11 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 dose | appos |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 size | nmod:poss |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whatever | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | all kids | the same dose | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, sisters always take more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | sisters | more | always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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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