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title: Why must you finish a course of antibiotics as the doctor says? — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must you finish a course of antibiotics as the doctor says? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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 11 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

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Why must you finish a course of antibiotics as the doctor says?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, doctor · **What happens:** finish, say · **To what, where:** course · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t11:1
# text = Why must you finish a course of antibiotics as the doctor says?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | must | you | a course of antibiotics |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector course=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Unfinished pills explode in the box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t11:o1:1
# text = Unfinished pills explode in the box
1	Unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	explode	explode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explode** | present | Unfinished pills |  |  | the box |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Stopping early can leave tougher bacteria that may grow back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t11:o2:1
# text = Stopping early can leave tougher bacteria that may grow back
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	tougher	tough	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | can |  | tougher bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme |
| 3 | **grow back** | may | tougher bacteria |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Your body needs the rest as food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t11:o3:1
# text = Your body needs the rest as food
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Your body | the rest |  |  |  | as food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes the medicine taste much better next time you are ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t11:o4:1
# text = It makes the medicine taste much better next time you are ill
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the medicine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | present | the medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | time | ill *property* | 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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