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title: Identify the principal reason for which medicine is never described… — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which medicine is never described to small children as sweets. Exam question 2 of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 2 · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

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Identify the principal reason for which medicine is never described to small children as sweets.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, not describe · **To what, where:** principal reason, medicine

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which medicine is never described to small children as sweets.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **describe** | present · passive |  | medicine |  |  |  | for the principal reason; to small children; as sweets | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as sweet=Attribute |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Small children may thereafter seek more of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:e2:o1:1
# text = Small children may thereafter seek more of it
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | may | Small children | more of it |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Medicine is a good deal more expensive than sweets are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:e2:o2:1
# text = Medicine is a good deal more expensive than sweets are
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Medicine | a good deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than sweets; expensive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sweets interfere with medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:e2:o3:1
# text = Sweets interfere with medicine
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	interfere	interfere	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interfere** | present | Sweets |  |  |  |  | with medicine | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children dislike the word «medicine»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:e2:o4:1
# text = Children dislike the word «medicine»
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dislike	dislike	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	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dislike** | present | Children | the word |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |

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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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