--- title: Sam's mum gives him eight different supplements a day. Is that wise? — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's mum gives him eight different supplements a day. Is that wise? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil Sam's mum gives him eight different supplements a day. Is that wise? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, that · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** eight different supplements, Sam This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Sam's mum gives him eight different supplements a day. ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:1 # text = Sam's mum gives him eight different supplements a day. 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 supplements supplement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Sam's mum | eight different supplements a day | Sam | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient supplement=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Is that wise? ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:2 # text = Is that wise? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | that | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yes, if he's under 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:o1:1 # text = Yes, if he's under 10 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | he | | | 10 | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yes, more is always better ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:o2:1 # text = Yes, more is always better 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 advcl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | always, good *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} No, because supplements are illegal for children ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:o3:1 # text = No, because supplements are illegal for children 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 supplements supplement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | supplements | | | | | for children; illegal *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Not usually, it rarely helps and can harm ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t7:o4:1 # text = Not usually, it rarely helps and can harm 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **help** | present | it | | | | | rarely, usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **harm** | can | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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