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title: Which is true about children and grown-ups' medicines? — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about children and grown-ups' medicines? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

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Which is true about children and grown-ups' medicines?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grown ups · **What happens:** be, grow, medicine

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» of the everyday 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/everyday/114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t1:1
# text = Which is true about children and grown-ups' medicines?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about children; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **medicine** |  | grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Medicines work the same for every age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t1:o1:1
# text = Medicines work the same for every age
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Medicines | the same |  |  | for every age |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent same=Theme for age=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A child can safely take half of any adult tablet without a problem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t1:o2:1
# text = A child can safely take half of any adult tablet without a problem
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | can | a child | half of any adult tablet |  |  |  | without a problem; safely *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Adult medicines can harm children, because doses are different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t1:o3:1
# text = Adult medicines can harm children, because doses are different
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | can | Adult medicines | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | doses |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only liquid medicines are dangerous to children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t1:o4:1
# text = Only liquid medicines are dangerous to children
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | liquid medicines |  |  |  |  | to children; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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