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title: Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any o… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?" Why? Test 3 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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 · At the pharmacy

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Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?" Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, pharmacist · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** pharmacist · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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/20-at-the-pharmacy/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:1
# text = Mum asks for a medicine and the pharmacist asks "who's it for, any other meds?"
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meds	med	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  | for a medicine | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the pharmacist |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | pharmacist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	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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Because the law says pharmacists have to be nosy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:o1:1
# text = Because the law says pharmacists have to be nosy
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	nosy	nosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the law |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | pharmacists |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | pharmacists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nosy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To make sure it's right and safe for that person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:o2:1
# text = To make sure it's right and safe for that person
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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To guess Mum's age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:o3:1
# text = To guess Mum's age
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | to-infinitive |  | Mum's age |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To slow down the queue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t3:o4:1
# text = To slow down the queue
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	slow	slow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | to-infinitive |  | the queue |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent queue=Patient |

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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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