Test 6 · At the pharmacy

what happens if you flush old pills down the loo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, flush · To what, where: old pills

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 flush	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 flush	nsubj
5	flush	flush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pills	amod
7	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flush	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 loo	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loo	det
10	loo	loo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flush	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flush a condition, not said to happen	present	you	old pills				down the loo	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pill=Source

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

They melt and vanish safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melt	nsubj
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 vanish	cc
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 melt	conj
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 vanish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	They						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	vanish	present	They not said here					safely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, the water at the works cleans them all away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 cleans	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 works	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 works	det
7	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
8	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleans	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 them	nmod:unmarked
11	away	away	ADV	_	8 cleans	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean away	present	Nothing	works = work				away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

The water company sells them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	compound
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sells	nsubj
4	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	the water company	them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Medicines can get into rivers and harm wildlife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 rivers	case
5	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wildlife	cc
7	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wildlife	compound
8	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	Medicines			rivers and harm wildlife			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into river=Destination

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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