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title: What would happen if Grandma took her Monday pills twice by mistake? — The right dose and never more than · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Grandma took her Monday pills twice by mistake? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» 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 7 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than

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What would happen if Grandma took her Monday pills twice by mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandma · **What happens:** happen, take · **To what, where:** Monday pills

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» 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/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:t7:1
# text = What would happen if Grandma took her Monday pills twice by mistake?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Grandma | Grandma's Monday pills |  |  |  | by mistake; twice *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme |

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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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Her two lots of pills would cancel each other out in her blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:t7:o1:1
# text = Her two lots of pills would cancel each other out in her blood
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obj	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel out** | would | Her two lots of pills | each |  | her blood |  |  | tree rules |

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

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She could get too much medicine, so call a pharmacist or 111

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:t7:o2:1
# text = She could get too much medicine, so call a pharmacist or 111
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pharmacist	pharmacist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | She | much medicine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medicine=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | She *not said here* | a pharmacist |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharmacist=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She'd just skip Tuesday's pills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:t7:o3:1
# text = She'd just skip Tuesday's pills
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | would | She | Tuesday's pills |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, more pills are healthier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing, more pills are healthier
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | more pills |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | 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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