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title: Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles. How can that be? — The microscopic world: viruses and vac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles. How can that be? Test 9 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 9 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines

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Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles. How can that be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Granny, that · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** chickenpox, shingles

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:1
# text = Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles.
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	shingles	shingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Granny | chickenpox |  |  |  | as a girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickenpox=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Granny *not said here* | shingles |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shingle=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How can that be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:2
# text = How can that be?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The chickenpox virus hid in her nerves for decades and woke up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:o1:1
# text = The chickenpox virus hid in her nerves for decades and woke up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the chickenpox virus |  |  | virus's nerves | decade |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nerve=Location |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | the chickenpox virus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She caught it again from a baby in her family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:o2:1
# text = She caught it again from a baby in her family
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | She | it |  | a baby | again | in her family | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from baby=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shingles comes from eating bad food that has gone off in the fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:o3:1
# text = Shingles comes from eating bad food that has gone off in the fridge
1	Shingles	shingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Shingles |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Shingles *not said here* | bad food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **go off** | present · perfect | bad food |  |  | the fridge |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fridge=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shingles is a kind of sunburn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines:t9:o4:1
# text = Shingles is a kind of sunburn
1	Shingles	shingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Shingles | a kind |  |  |  | of sunburn | 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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