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title: Why should you not scratch chickenpox? — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should you not scratch chickenpox? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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 10 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

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Why should you not scratch chickenpox?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not scratch · **To what, where:** chickenpox

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday 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/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t10:1
# text = Why should you not scratch chickenpox?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **scratch** | should | you | chickenpox |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickenpox=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 {#o1}

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Scratching makes the illness last a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t10:o1:1
# text = Scratching makes the illness last a year
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	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	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | the illness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **last** | infinitive | the illness *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Scratching turns the spots into warts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t10:o2:1
# text = Scratching turns the spots into warts
1	Scratching	scratching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	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	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	warts	wart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Scratching | the spots |  | warts |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spot=Theme into wart=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Scratching spreads the spots to your hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t10:o3:1
# text = Scratching spreads the spots to your hair
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spreads	spread	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	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | present |  | the spots |  |  |  | to your hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spot=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Scratching can cause infection and scars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill:t10:o4:1
# text = Scratching can cause infection and scars
1	Scratching	scratching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can | Scratching | infection and scars |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |

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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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