Test 8 · ★ · How medicines work

What would happen if new medicines were sold without any trials?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, sell · To what, where: new medicines

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 17 «How medicines work» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sold	mark
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 medicines	amod
6	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sold	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sold	aux:pass
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 trials	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 trials	det
11	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sold	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		new medicines				without any trials	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They would be cheaper and much safer for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheaper	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 safer	cc
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 safer	advmod
7	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cheaper	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					for everyone; cheap property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They would work better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	They					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody would know if they worked or were safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 worked	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 safe	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	would	Nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	work a condition, not said to happen	past	they		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	they not said here	safe property	tree rules

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