Test 7 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than
What would happen if Grandma took her Monday pills twice by mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma · What happens: happen, take · To what, where: Monday pills
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 took | mark |
| 5 | Grandma | Grandma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pills | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pills | compound |
| 9 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 took | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 mistake | case |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | past | Grandma | Grandma's Monday pills | by mistake; twice property | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Her two lots of pills would cancel each other out in her blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lots | nummod |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cancel | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pills | case |
| 5 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cancel | aux |
| 7 | cancel | cancel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 cancel | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cancel | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cancel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel out | would | Her two lots of pills | each | her blood | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She could get too much medicine, so call a pharmacist or 111
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 medicine | amod |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 call | advmod |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pharmacist | det |
| 11 | pharmacist | pharmacist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 111 | cc |
| 13 | 111 | 111 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 pharmacist | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | She | much medicine | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medicine=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | She not said here | a pharmacist | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharmacist=Recipient |
Option 3
She'd just skip Tuesday's pills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 skip | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 skip | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 skip | advmod |
| 4 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pills | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tuesday | case |
| 7 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skip | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | would | She | Tuesday's pills | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing, more pills are healthier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 healthier | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pills | amod |
| 4 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 healthier | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 healthier | cop |
| 6 | healthier | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | more pills | healthy property | tree rules |
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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