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title: Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine. What's the problem? — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine. What's the problem? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 17 «How medicines work» of the medicine 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 · ★ · How medicines work

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Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine. What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, my, problem · **What happens:** use, medicine, be · **To what, where:** kitchen teaspoon

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 17 «How medicines work» of the medicine 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/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:1
# text = Mum used a kitchen teaspoon for my medicine.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Mum | a kitchen teaspoon |  |  |  | for my medicine | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent teaspoon=Theme for medicine=Eventuality |
| 2 | **medicine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:2
# text = What's the problem?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Kitchen spoons are different sizes, so the dose may be wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:o1:1
# text = Kitchen spoons are different sizes, so the dose may be wrong
1	Kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kitchen spoons | different sizes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | the dose |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Metal spoons ruin the medicine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:o2:1
# text = Metal spoons ruin the medicine
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ruin	ruin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | present | Metal spoons | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument medicine=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No problem at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:o3:1
# text = No problem at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Teaspoons are always too small for any dose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t3:o4:1
# text = Teaspoons are always too small for any dose
1	Teaspoons	teaspoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Teaspoons |  |  |  |  | for any dose; always, small *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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