Test 5 · At the pharmacy
A Scottish kid and his dad both get prescriptions. Who pays?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scottish kid · What happens: get, pay · To what, where: prescriptions
This is test 5 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: A Scottish kid and his dad both get prescriptions.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dad | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dad | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | conj |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | prescriptions | prescription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a Scottish kid and his dad | prescriptions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prescription=Stimulus |
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: Who pays?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 pays | nsubj |
| 2 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only the dad, as an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 dad | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 adult | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 adult | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Neither of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both of them pay half each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 pay | obj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 half | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | Both | each half | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset |
Option 4
Only the kid, at a child's price
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 kid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kid | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 price | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 price | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 child | case |
| 9 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | 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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