Test 8 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

Why should a course of antibiotics be finished as the doctor says, even when you feel better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, you · What happens: finish, say, feel · To what, where: course · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 finished	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 course	det
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 antibiotics	case
6	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 finished	obl
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 finished	aux:pass
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 says	advcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 says	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 feel	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 feel	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 feel	nsubj
17	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 feel	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	should · passive		a course	of antibiotics	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel	present	you		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

The medicine tastes better at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	nsubj
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 tastes	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the medicine				at the end	well property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

Option 2

Leftover pills turn into vaccines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pills	compound
2	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 vaccines	case
5	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Leftover pills			vaccines			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into vaccine=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Feeling better means the medicine stopped working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Feeling		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	past	the medicine		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	work	gerund	the medicine not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some bacteria may still be alive and could come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bacteria	det
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 alive	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 alive	cop
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 alive	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	some bacteria				still	alive property	tree rules
2	come back	could	some bacteria not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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