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title: Why does washing bedding hot help people with dust mite allergy? — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does washing bedding hot help people with dust mite allergy? Test 11 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

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Why does washing bedding hot help people with dust mite allergy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** wash, help · **To what, where:** bedding, people

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This is test 11 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t11:1
# text = Why does washing bedding hot help people with dust mite allergy?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	nsubj	_	_
4	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | present · do-support |  | bedding |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | present |  |  | people |  |  | with mite allergy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary with allergy=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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It makes skin flakes bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t11:o1:1
# text = It makes skin flakes bigger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | skin flakes |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material flake=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hot water makes mites grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t11:o2:1
# text = Hot water makes mites grow
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Hot water | mites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | mites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mites like the smell of soap and leave the bed to find it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t11:o3:1
# text = Mites like the smell of soap and leave the bed to find it
1	Mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | infinitive | Mites like the smell and soap | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Mites like the smell and soap *not said here* | bed |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hot washing kills mites and removes their droppings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t11:o4:1
# text = Hot washing kills mites and removes their droppings
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	removes	remove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Hot washing | mites |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mite=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | present | Hot washing *not said here* | mites's droppings |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme |

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