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title: Which of these is NOT caused by a virus? — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these is NOT caused by a virus? Test 10 of lesson 11 «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 10 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

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Which of these is NOT caused by a virus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** virus · **What happens:** not cause

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This is test 10 of lesson 11 «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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/medicine/11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t10:1
# text = Which of these is NOT caused by a virus?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cause** | present · passive | a virus |  |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition which=Patient |

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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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Verrucas on the feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t10:o1:1
# text = Verrucas on the feet
1	Verrucas	Verrucas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Cold sores

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t10:o2:1
# text = Cold sores
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sores	sore	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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Chickenpox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t10:o3:1
# text = Chickenpox
1	Chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ringworm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t10:o4:1
# text = Ringworm
1	Ringworm	ringworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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