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title: What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold? — Antibiotics, viruses and side effects · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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 3 · ★ · Antibiotics, viruses and side effects

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What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** happen, take · **To what, where:** antibiotics

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t3:1
# text = What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold?
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	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | everyone | antibiotics |  |  |  | for every cold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme for cold=Beneficiary |

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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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Nothing, because it does no harm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because it does no harm
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Colds would disappear from the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t3:o2:1
# text = Colds would disappear from the world
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | would | Colds |  |  | the world |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from world=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Viruses would turn into bacteria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t3:o3:1
# text = Viruses would turn into bacteria
1	Viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | Viruses |  |  | bacteria |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bacteria=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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More bacteria would become resistant and antibiotics would fail more often

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t3:o4:1
# text = More bacteria would become resistant and antibiotics would fail more often
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	resistant	resistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | More bacteria |  |  |  |  | resistant *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | would | antibiotics |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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