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title: Ruby: «how much am I meant to drink, like a bucket?» What's the answ… — Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby: «how much am I meant to drink, like a bucket?» What's the answer? Test 8 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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 8 · Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks

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Ruby: «how much am I meant to drink, like a bucket?» What's the answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ruby, answer · **What happens:** be, drink

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This is test 8 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby: «how much am I meant to drink, like a bucket?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:1
# text = Ruby: «how much am I meant to drink, like a bucket?»
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ruby |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ruby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a bucket | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* What's the answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:2
# text = What's the answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One small glass a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:o1:1
# text = One small glass a day
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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

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About 6 to 8 drinks a day, more when hot or active

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:o2:1
# text = About 6 to 8 drinks a day, more when hot or active
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A whole bucket every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:o3:1
# text = A whole bucket every day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only when she feels faint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks:t8:o4:1
# text = Only when she feels faint
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | she |  |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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