Test 10 · At the pharmacy

What would happen if pharmacists didn't check prescriptions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pharmacists · What happens: happen, not check · To what, where: prescriptions

This is test 10 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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 check	mark
5	pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 check	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 check	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 check	advmod
8	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
9	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 check	obj
10	?	?	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	not check a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	pharmacists	prescriptions					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prescription=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

Doctors would never make any mistakes, so it wouldn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mistakes	det
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 matter	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 matter	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 matter	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 matter	advmod
12	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	would	Doctors	any mistakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product
2	not matter	would	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mistakes in doses or mixes could reach patients

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reach	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 doses	case
3	doses	dose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mistakes	nmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 mixes	cc
5	mixes	mix	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 doses	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	could	Mistakes in doses or mixes	patients					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent patient=Theme

Option 3

Medicines would work faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod

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

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

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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