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title: what happens if you flush old pills down the loo? — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: what happens if you flush old pills down the loo? Test 6 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 6 · At the pharmacy

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what happens if you flush old pills down the loo?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, flush · **To what, where:** old pills

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t6:1
# text = what happens if you flush old pills down the loo?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flush	flush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	loo	loo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flush** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | old pills |  |  |  | down the loo | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pill=Source |

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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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They melt and vanish safely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t6:o1:1
# text = They melt and vanish safely
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **vanish** | present | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, the water at the works cleans them all away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, the water at the works cleans them all away
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean away** | present | Nothing | works *= work* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The water company sells them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t6:o3:1
# text = The water company sells them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | the water company | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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

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Medicines can get into rivers and harm wildlife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t6:o4:1
# text = Medicines can get into rivers and harm wildlife
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | Medicines |  |  | rivers and harm wildlife |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |

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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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