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title: What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immun… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immunity? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» 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 6 · ★ · COVID and staying home

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What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immunity?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new virus, nobody · **What happens:** happen, appear, have · **To what, where:** immunity

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» 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/12-covid-and-staying-home/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immunity?
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	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	immunity	immunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	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 | **appear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a new virus |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | nobody | immunity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immunity=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It could spread across the world as a pandemic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t6:o1:1
# text = It could spread across the world as a pandemic
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | could | It |  |  | the world |  | as a pandemic | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across world=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, bodies already know all viruses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, bodies already know all viruses
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Nothing bodies | all viruses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer virus=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It would stay in one house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t6:o3:1
# text = It would stay in one house
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | It |  |  | one house |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would vanish at once by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t6:o4:1
# text = It would vanish at once by itself
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | It |  |  |  |  | by itself *= it* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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