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title: A 3-year-old in the UK. What does health advice say about vitamins? — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: A 3-year-old in the UK. What does health advice say about vitamins? Test 9 · ★★ 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.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

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A 3-year-old in the UK. What does health advice say about vitamins?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** health advice · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A 3-year-old in the UK.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:1
# text = A 3-year-old in the UK.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What does health advice say about vitamins?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:2
# text = What does health advice say about vitamins?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | health advice |  |  |  |  | about vitamins | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only cod-liver oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:o1:1
# text = Only cod-liver oil
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fish oil every day to boost his brain power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:o2:1
# text = Fish oil every day to boost his brain power
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	boost	boost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boost** | to-infinitive |  | his brain power |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Daily vitamins A, C and D are recommended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:o3:1
# text = Daily vitamins A, C and D are recommended
1	Daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | present · passive |  | Daily vitamins  a C and D |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No vitamins until age 10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t9:o4:1
# text = No vitamins until age 10
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
```

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

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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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