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title: What would happen if pharmacists didn't check prescriptions? — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if pharmacists didn't check prescriptions? Test 10 of lesson 20 «At the pharmacy» 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 10 · At the pharmacy

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What would happen if pharmacists didn't check prescriptions?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t10:1
# text = What would happen if pharmacists didn't check prescriptions?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	pharmacists	pharmacist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	prescriptions	prescription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **not** **check** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | pharmacists | prescriptions |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prescription=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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Doctors would never make any mistakes, so it wouldn't matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t10:o1:1
# text = Doctors would never make any mistakes, so it wouldn't matter
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Mistakes in doses or mixes could reach patients

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t10:o2:1
# text = Mistakes in doses or mixes could reach patients
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	mixes	mix	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Medicines would work faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t10:o3:1
# text = Medicines would work faster
1	Medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:20-at-the-pharmacy:t10:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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