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title: Why do some people get poisoned by drinks from old bottles? — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do some people get poisoned by drinks from old bottles? Test 4 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

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Why do some people get poisoned by drinks from old bottles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** poison · **To what, where:** people, old bottles

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t4:1
# text = Why do some people get poisoned by drinks from old bottles?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | present · passive · do-support |  | some people |  | old bottles |  | by drinks | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The plastic turns into poison when the bottle is left in sunlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t4:o1:1
# text = The plastic turns into poison when the bottle is left in sunlight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | the plastic |  |  | poison |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poison=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leave** | present · passive |  | the bottle |  | sunlight |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in sunlight=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chemicals are sometimes stored in old drink bottles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t4:o2:1
# text = Chemicals are sometimes stored in old drink bottles
1	Chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | present · passive |  | Chemicals |  | old drink bottles |  | sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in bottle=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old bottles make drinks go bad at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t4:o3:1
# text = Old bottles make drinks go bad at once
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Old bottles | drinks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | drinks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Drink bottles are poison by themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t4:o4:1
# text = Drink bottles are poison by themselves
1	Drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Drink bottles | poison |  |  |  | by bottles *= bottle* | 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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