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title: Why do people get poisoned by chemicals kept in old drink bottles? — Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people get poisoned by chemicals kept in old drink bottles? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

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Why do people get poisoned by chemicals kept in old drink bottles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chemicals · **What happens:** poison, keep · **To what, where:** people, chemicals, old drink bottles

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t3:1
# text = Why do people get poisoned by chemicals kept in old drink bottles?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | present · passive · do-support | chemicals | people |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | chemicals *not said here* |  | old drink bottles |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottle=Location |

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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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Chemicals always smell like juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t3:o1:1
# text = Chemicals always smell like juice
1	Chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | Chemicals |  |  |  |  | like juice; always *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Drink bottles make chemicals stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t3:o2:1
# text = Drink bottles make chemicals stronger
1	Drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Drink bottles | chemicals |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material chemical=Product |

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

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Someone thinks it is a drink and swallows it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t3:o3:1
# text = Someone thinks it is a drink and swallows it
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | present | Someone *not said here* | drink |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The old bottle turns whatever drink is in it poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:114-bags-medicines-and-chemicals:t3:o4:1
# text = The old bottle turns whatever drink is in it poisonous
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the old bottle |  |  | drink |  | poisonous, turn *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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