 Prescriptions can typically be formulated in deontic vocabulary, i.e., in terms of what is prescribed, forbidden, or  allowed/proscribed.[8]  They can be conditional (CP) or unconditional (P). For conditional prescriptions, we can distinguish between those where the deontic operator (“ought”, “should”) takes wide scope over the conditional \((\CP_w )\), and those where it takes narrow scope \((\CP_n )\):