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title: Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain." What is… — Soft words for hard things: drinking a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain." What is the leaflet warning about? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

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Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain." What is the leaflet warning about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Recreational drugs · **What happens:** damage, be · **To what, where:** brain, leaflet warning

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:1
# text = Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain."
1	Health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Recreational	recreational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** *in a quote* | can | Recreational drugs | your brain |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the leaflet warning about?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:2
# text = What is the leaflet warning about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	leaflet	leaflet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the leaflet warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Sports drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:o1:1
# text = Sports drinks
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sweets with sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:o2:1
# text = Sweets with sugar
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Medicines that the doctor gives you to take

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:o3:1
# text = Medicines that the doctor gives you to take
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the doctor | Medicines | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | the doctor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Illegal drugs taken for pleasure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:30-drinking-and-drugs:t9:o4:1
# text = Illegal drugs taken for pleasure
1	Illegal	illegal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  | Illegal drugs *not said here* |  |  |  | for pleasure | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pleasure=Beneficiary |

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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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