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Test 3 · At the pharmacy

Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?" Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, pharmacist · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: pharmacist · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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 asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asks	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pharmacist	det
8	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	nsubj
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 who	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 asks	ccomp
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 who	nsubj
14	for	for	ADP	_	11 who	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 meds	punct
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 meds	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meds	amod
18	meds	med	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asks	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 meds	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 meds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Mum					for a medicine	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	present	the pharmacist						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		pharmacist					tree rules

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Because the law says pharmacists have to be nosy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 law	det
3	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 nosy	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 nosy	cop
9	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the law						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	pharmacists						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	pharmacists not said here					nosy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To make sure it's right and safe for that person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive						sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	present	it					right property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To guess Mum's age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 guess	mark
2	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 age	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Mum	case
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	to-infinitive		Mum's age					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 4

To slow down the queue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 slow	mark
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 slow	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queue	det
5	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	to-infinitive		the queue					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent queue=Patient

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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