---
title: Why should children not take adult medicine on their own? — Balconies, blades, batteries and stran… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should children not take adult medicine on their own? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why should children not take adult medicine on their own?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** not take · **To what, where:** adult medicine, own

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t8:1
# text = Why should children not take adult medicine on their own?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | should | children | adult medicine |  | children's own |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme on own=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Medicine always tastes bad for children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t8:o1:1
# text = Medicine always tastes bad for children
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | Medicine |  |  |  |  | for children; always, bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Adult medicine never works on children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t8:o2:1
# text = Adult medicine never works on children
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **work** | present | Adult medicine |  |  |  |  | on children | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on child=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children's doses are different and adult medicine can harm them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t8:o3:1
# text = Children's doses are different and adult medicine can harm them
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children's doses |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **harm** | can | adult medicine | doses *= dose* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children are not ill often enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t8:o4:1
# text = Children are not ill often enough
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | enough, ill, often *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t7/)
- next →: [Balconies, blades, batteries and stran…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/)