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title: Identify the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and wate… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water after contact with animals. Exam question 2 of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 2 · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

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Identify the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water after contact with animals.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, recommend · **To what, where:** recommended duration

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/everyday/29-germs-from-animals/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:e2:1
# text = Identify the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water after contact with animals.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water |  |  | after contact with animals |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Approximately twenty seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:e2:o1:1
# text = Approximately twenty seconds
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately five minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately five minutes
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately two seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately two seconds
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hand washing is unnecessary after contact

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:e2:o4:1
# text = Hand washing is unnecessary after contact
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hand washing |  |  |  | after contact | unnecessary *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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