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title: Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops. Problem? — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops. Problem? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · How medicines work

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Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops. Problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** rub · **To what, where:** eye

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:1
# text = Ugh, rubbed my eye straight after the drops.
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past |  | my eye |  |  | after the drops | straight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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:* Problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:2
# text = Problem?
1	Problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It helps the drops work much quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:o1:1
# text = It helps the drops work much quicker
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | present | the drops |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the drops stronger and last longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:o2:1
# text = It makes the drops stronger and last longer
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the drops |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material drop=Product |
| 2 | **last** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Rubbing can push the medicine out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:o3:1
# text = Rubbing can push the medicine out
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push out** | can |  | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, rub hard to spread the drops round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:17-how-medicines-work:t9:o4:1
# text = No, rub hard to spread the drops round
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive |  | the drops |  |  |  | round *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=Theme |

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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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