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title: Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean? — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · COVID and staying home

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Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, hands · **What happens:** gel, come, look · **To what, where:** hands, class

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t9:1
# text = Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean?
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	gel	gel	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	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gel** | present · do-support | we | our hands |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | class |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into class=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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It makes hands smell nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t9:o1:1
# text = It makes hands smell nice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smell** | infinitive | hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes pencils stick to fingers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t9:o2:1
# text = It makes pencils stick to fingers
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | pencils |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | infinitive | pencils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to fingers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to finger=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's just a rule with no reason behind it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t9:o3:1
# text = It's just a rule with no reason behind it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a rule |  |  |  | with no reason behind reason | tree rules |

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

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Gel kills many germs we can't see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:t9:o4:1
# text = Gel kills many germs we can't see
1	Gel	gel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Gel | many germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | we | many germs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer germ=Stimulus |

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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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