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title: In a cartoon, head lice leap from one kid's head across the classroo… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lic… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, head lice leap from one kid's head across the classroom. What's wrong? Test 2 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 wa
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# Test 2 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

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In a cartoon, head lice leap from one kid's head across the classroom. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** head lice · **What happens:** leap, be · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, head lice leap from one kid's head across the classroom.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:1
# text = In a cartoon, head lice leap from one kid's head across the classroom.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | present | head lice |  |  | a cartoon |  | from one kid's head; across the classroom | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, lice are great jumpers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, lice are great jumpers
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing lice | great jumpers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lice live in desks and come out at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:o2:1
# text = Lice live in desks and come out at night
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	desks	desk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Lice |  |  | desks |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desk=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | present | Lice *not said here* |  |  |  | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lice only live on dogs and cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:o3:1
# text = Lice only live on dogs and cats
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Lice |  |  |  |  | on dogs and cats | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dog=Location |

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

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Lice can't jump or fly, they crawl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t2:o4:1
# text = Lice can't jump or fly, they crawl
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **jump** | can | Lice |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | Lice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **crawl** | present | Lice *= louse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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