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title: Why might a few vitamin pills that look like sweets hurt a small chi… — Cleaning chemicals and safety at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a few vitamin pills that look like sweets hurt a small child? Test 10 of lesson 25 «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · Cleaning chemicals and safety at home

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Why might a few vitamin pills that look like sweets hurt a small child?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** few vitamin pills · **What happens:** look, hurt · **To what, where:** small child

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This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/25-cleaning-chemicals-safety/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:25-cleaning-chemicals-safety:t10:1
# text = Why might a few vitamin pills that look like sweets hurt a small child?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a few vitamin pills |  |  |  |  | like sweets | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hurt** | might | a few vitamin pills | a small child |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Sweet-looking pills are made of plastic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:25-cleaning-chemicals-safety:t10:o1:1
# text = Sweet-looking pills are made of plastic
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | looking pills |  |  |  | of plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A small body is harmed by a smaller amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:25-cleaning-chemicals-safety:t10:o2:1
# text = A small body is harmed by a smaller amount
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | present · passive | a smaller amount | a small body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Vitamins are always a poison for everyone who takes them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:25-cleaning-chemicals-safety:t10:o3:1
# text = Vitamins are always a poison for everyone who takes them
1	Vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Vitamins | a poison |  |  |  | for everyone; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present |  | Vitamins *= vitamin* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children cannot take in any vitamins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:25-cleaning-chemicals-safety:t10:o4:1
# text = Children cannot take in any vitamins
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | can | Children |  |  | any vitamins |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in vitamin=Location |

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**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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