Test 6 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
Lily swallowed some pills and Mum wants to make her sick. What's right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, Mum · What happens: swallow, want, make, be · To what, where: pills
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Lily swallowed some pills and Mum wants to make her sick.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 pills | det |
| 4 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swallowed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wants | cc |
| 6 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swallowed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wants | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sick | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | Lily | some pills | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Mum | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | sick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, make her sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | sick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2
Give her more pills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pills | amod |
| 4 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | more pills | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pill=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Don't make her sick; call 111 or 999 and bring the packet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 8 | 111 | 111 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 999 | cc |
| 10 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 111 | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 packet | det |
| 14 | packet | packet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | imperative · do-support | you not said here | sick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | 111 | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 111=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the packet | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent packet=Theme |
Option 4
Give her a glass of milk and wait a few hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glass | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 milk | case |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glass | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wait | cc |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hours | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hours | amod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a glass of milk | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient glass=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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