Test 12 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

Leo says if 1 spoon of medicine helps, 3 spoons'll help more. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, 1 spoon, 3 spoons · What happens: say, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 helps	mark
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 spoon	nummod
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 medicine	case
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	nmod
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
10	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 spoons	nummod
11	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 help	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	conj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 help	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 help	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help a condition, not said to happen	present	1 spoon of medicine		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	help	future	3 spoons	true property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, too much medicine can be harmful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 harmful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 medicine	amod
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harmful	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 harmful	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 harmful	cop
8	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	much medicine					harmful property	tree rules

Option 2

No, medicine never helps at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helps	punct
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helps	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 helps	advmod
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 helps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present	medicine			all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, but only with children's medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 medicine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 medicine	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 medicine	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 medicine	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 medicine	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 children	case
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	medicine		children						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, more medicine always works faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 medicine	amod
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 works	advmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	more medicine					always, fast property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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