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title: What would happen if lots of people went to A&E for small splinters? — Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if lots of people went to A&E for small splinters? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» 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 5 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

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What would happen if lots of people went to A&E for small splinters?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lots · **What happens:** happen, go · **To what, where:** E

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» 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/26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t5:1
# text = What would happen if lots of people went to A&E for small splinters?
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	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	splinters	splinter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | lots of people |  |  | a E |  | for small splinters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to e=Initial\_Location |

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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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A&E would close for the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t5:o1:1
# text = A&E would close for the day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	E	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | would | a E |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Seriously ill patients would wait longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t5:o2:1
# text = Seriously ill patients would wait longer
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | would | ill patients |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Splinters would be treated faster than heart attacks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t5:o3:1
# text = Splinters would be treated faster than heart attacks
1	Splinters	splinter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | would · passive |  | Splinters |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing changes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:26-emergencies-ambulance-999-and-a-and-e:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing changes
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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