Test 4 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
Mum gave me cold syrup and then paracetamol. What should she check first?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: give, check · To what, where: cold syrup, me
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Mum gave me cold syrup and then paracetamol.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 syrup | amod |
| 5 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 paracetamol | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 paracetamol | advmod |
| 8 | paracetamol | paracetamol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 syrup | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Mum | cold syrup and paracetamol | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient syrup=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: What should she check first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 check | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 check | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 check | nsubj |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 check | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | should | Mum | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Whether the syrup is the red or the yellow kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 red | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 syrup | det |
| 3 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 red | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 red | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 red | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 kind | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kind | amod |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 red | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the syrup | red property | tree rules |
Option 2
Whether I'm hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 hungry | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Whether the syrup already has paracetamol in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 syrup | det |
| 3 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | paracetamol | paracetamol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the syrup | paracetamol | paracetamol | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paracetamol=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing, mixing any medicines together is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixing | punct |
| 3 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 medicines | det |
| 5 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mixing | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 mixing | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | cop |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | gerund | Nothing not said here | any medicines | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Nothing | fine property | tree rules |
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