Exam question 4 · At the pharmacy

Determine the appropriate means of disposal of unused or expired medicaments.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate · What happens: determine, mean

This is exam question 4 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 appropriate	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 disposal	case
6	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 medicaments	case
8	unused	unused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 medicaments	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 expired	cc
10	expired	expired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unused	conj
11	medicaments	medicament	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 disposal	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the appropriate					of disposal of unused medicaments	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Retention at home for future administration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Retention	retention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Retention	nmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 administration	case
5	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 administration	amod
6	administration	administration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Retention	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Discharge into the public sewerage system

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Discharge	discharge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	6 system	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 system	det
4	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 system	amod
5	sewerage	sewerage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 system	compound
6	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Discharge	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Return to a pharmacy for safe disposal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 pharmacy	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pharmacy	det
4	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Return	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 disposal	case
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disposal	amod
7	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Return	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Deposition in the ordinary household refuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deposition	deposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 refuse	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 refuse	det
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 refuse	amod
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refuse	compound
6	refuse	refuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deposition	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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