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title: «ugh flu, 39 degrees, my body's broken» What is the fever really doi… — The microscopic world: viruses and vac… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ugh flu, 39 degrees, my body's broken» What is the fever really doing? Test 2 of lesson 258 «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines

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«ugh flu, 39 degrees, my body's broken» What is the fever really doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fever · **What happens:** break, be · **To what, where:** flu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 258 «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology 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/biology/258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t2:1
# text = «ugh flu, 39 degrees, my body's broken» What is the fever really doing?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | flu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the fever |  |  |  |  | do *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Helping fight the virus by making it harder to multiply

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t2:o1:1
# text = Helping fight the virus by making it harder to multiply
1	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | infinitive |  | the virus |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  | virus |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **multiply** | to-infinitive | virus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Showing the body has given up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t2:o2:1
# text = Showing the body has given up
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund |  | the body |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient |
| 2 | **give up** | present · perfect | Showing |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cooking the virus slowly in the blood until it is all dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t2:o3:1
# text = Cooking the virus slowly in the blood until it is all dead
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | gerund |  | the virus |  |  | until blood | in the blood; slowly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent virus=Patient in blood=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | present | Cooking |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, fevers have no reason

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, fevers have no reason
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fevers	fever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | fevers | Nothing |  |  |  |  | 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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