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description: Why was smallpox the first disease to be wiped out from the whole world? Test 6 · ★★ 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 6 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

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Why was smallpox the first disease to be wiped out from the whole world?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, wipe out · **To what, where:** smallpox, whole world

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t6:1
# text = Why was smallpox the first disease to be wiped out from the whole world?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | smallpox and the first disease |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wipe out** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | the whole world |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: from world=Trajectory |

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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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Vaccines protected so many that the virus had nowhere left to spread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t6:o1:1
# text = Vaccines protected so many that the virus had nowhere left to spread
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | participle |  | Vaccines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | Vaccines |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Smallpox germs died of old age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t6:o2:1
# text = Smallpox germs died of old age
1	Smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Smallpox germs |  |  |  | of old age |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The disease moved to animals only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t6:o3:1
# text = The disease moved to animals only
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the disease |  |  |  |  | to animals *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to animal=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Doctors found and killed every smallpox germ with soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t6:o4:1
# text = Doctors found and killed every smallpox germ with soap
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Doctors *not said here* | every smallpox germ |  |  |  | with soap | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent germ=Patient with soap=Instrument |

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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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