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title: What would happen if only one person in a family with threadworms we… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lic… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if only one person in a family with threadworms were treated? Test 9 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 wro
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# Test 9 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

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What would happen if only one person in a family with threadworms were treated?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, treat · **To what, where:** one person

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t9:1
# text = What would happen if only one person in a family with threadworms were treated?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	threadworms	threadworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | one person in a family with threadworms |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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All the worms in the house would vanish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t9:o1:1
# text = All the worms in the house would vanish
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | all worms in the house |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody else could catch them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody else could catch them
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | could | Nobody | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The pet would get them all instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t9:o3:1
# text = The pet would get them all instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the pet | them *= they* |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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

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The others could keep passing the eggs back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends:t9:o4:1
# text = The others could keep passing the eggs back
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | could | the others | the eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | the eggs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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