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Test 4 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

In a medicine test, half the volunteers get the medicine and half get a dummy pill. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: volunteers · What happens: get · To what, where: medicine, medicine test, dummy pill

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: In a medicine test, half the volunteers get the medicine and half get a dummy pill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 test	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 test	det
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	compound
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 volunteers	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 volunteers	det
8	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 medicine	det
11	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 get	compound
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pill	det
16	dummy	dummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pill	compound
17	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	half volunteers	the medicine		a medicine test			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medicine=Stimulus
2	get	present	half volunteers not said here	a dummy pill					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pill=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: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To see whether the medicine works better than nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 works	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 works	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	work	present	the medicine					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To make the test go faster

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 test	det
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the test					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the test not said here					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To save money on medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		money		medicine			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on medicine=Source

Option 4

Because there was not enough medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 enough	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 medicine	amod
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	enough medicine			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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