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title: Why does hay fever get worse on dry, windy days in summer? — Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does hay fever get worse on dry, windy days in summer? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» 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 · ★★ · Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens

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Why does hay fever get worse on dry, windy days in summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hay fever · **What happens:** get

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» 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/13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens:t10:1
# text = Why does hay fever get worse on dry, windy days in summer?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · do-support | hay fever |  |  |  | day; summer | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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The sun burns the inside of the nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens:t10:o1:1
# text = The sun burns the inside of the nose
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | the sun | the inside of the nose |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wind carries cold viruses about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens:t10:o2:1
# text = Wind carries cold viruses about
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Wind | cold viruses |  |  |  | about *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Summer air has less oxygen in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens:t10:o3:1
# text = Summer air has less oxygen in it
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Summer air | less oxygen |  | oxygen |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |

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

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More pollen is blown around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:13-hay-fever-allergies-and-epipens:t10:o4:1
# text = More pollen is blown around
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow around** | present · passive |  | More pollen |  |  |  | around *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |

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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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