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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the determination of a child's dose? Exam question 2 of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Exam question 2 · The right dose and never more than

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the determination of a child's dose?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dose · **What happens:** follow, characteris, determine · **To what, where:** determination

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» of the medicine 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/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the determination of a child's dose?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the determination of a child's dose |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** |  | a child's dose |  |  |  |  |  | nom determination «act intransitive»: of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The dose is identical for all children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:e2:o1:1
# text = The dose is identical for all children
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the dose |  |  |  |  | for all children; identical *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Half an adult tablet is invariably appropriate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:e2:o2:1
# text = Half an adult tablet is invariably appropriate
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | half adult tablet |  |  |  |  | appropriate, invariably *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The dose is determined by the child's preference

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:e2:o3:1
# text = The dose is determined by the child's preference
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | present · passive | the child's preference | the dose |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **prefer** |  | the child |  |  |  |  |  | nom preference «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The dose is determined by the child's age and weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:e2:o4:1
# text = The dose is determined by the child's age and weight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | present · passive | the child's age and weight | the dose |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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