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title: Why do we keep our distance from a friend with a bad cold? — Getting better, caring for others and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do we keep our distance from a friend with a bad cold? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

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Why do we keep our distance from a friend with a bad cold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** distance

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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/82-getting-better-and-medicines/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:t8:1
# text = Why do we keep our distance from a friend with a bad cold?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · do-support | we | our distance |  |  |  | from a friend; with a bad cold | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from friend=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Germs can spread from them to us

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:t8:o1:1
# text = Germs can spread from them to us
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | can | Germs |  | us |  |  | from them *= they* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Colds make people grumpy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:t8:o2:1
# text = Colds make people grumpy
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	grumpy	grumpy	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 | Colds | people |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Colds are caught by looking at someone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:t8:o3:1
# text = Colds are caught by looking at someone
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present · passive |  | Colds |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at someone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at someone=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is rude to stand close to people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:82-getting-better-and-medicines:t8:o4:1
# text = It is rude to stand close to people
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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