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title: Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the max… — Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the maximum daily quantity of free sugars recommended for a child aged between seven and ten years. Exam question 2 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Exam question 2 · Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks

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Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the maximum daily quantity of free sugars recommended for a child aged between seven and ten years.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** issue, determine, recommend, age · **To what, where:** guidance, maximum daily quantity, free sugars, child

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:e2:1
# text = Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the maximum daily quantity of free sugars recommended for a child aged between seven and ten years.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	8	flat	_	_
8	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sugars	sugar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle |  | guidance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the maximum daily quantity of free sugars |  |  |  | pursuant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic |
| 3 | **recommend** | participle |  | free sugars *not said here* |  |  |  | for a child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute |
| 4 | **age** | participle |  | a child *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Approximately two hundred grams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:e2:o1:1
# text = Approximately two hundred grams
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately two grams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately two grams
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Approximately twenty-four grams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately twenty-four grams
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No maximum is prescribed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:e2:o4:1
# text = No maximum is prescribed
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	maximum	maximum	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	prescribed	prescribe	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 | **prescribe** | present · passive |  | no maximum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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