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description: Why did doctors before the 1940s fear a scratch from a rusty fence more than doctors do now? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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
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# Test 10 · ★ · Antibiotics, viruses and side effects

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Why did doctors before the 1940s fear a scratch from a rusty fence more than doctors do now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** doctors · **What happens:** fear, do · **To what, where:** scratch, rusty fence

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t10:1
# text = Why did doctors before the 1940s fear a scratch from a rusty fence more than doctors do now?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1940s	1940	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past · do-support | doctors before the 1940s | a scratch |  | a rusty fence | now |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scratch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | present | doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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People in those days had much thinner skin than people today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t10:o1:1
# text = People in those days had much thinner skin than people today
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | People in that days | thinner skin |  |  | today | than people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Infected wounds could not be treated with antibiotics then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t10:o2:1
# text = Infected wounds could not be treated with antibiotics then
1	Infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **treat** | could · passive |  | Infected wounds |  |  | then | with antibiotics | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with antibiotic=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bacteria did not exist yet, so the danger came from the rust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t10:o3:1
# text = Bacteria did not exist yet, so the danger came from the rust
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | Bacteria |  |  |  | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the danger |  |  | the rust |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rust=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fences in the past were much sharper and rustier than they are now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects:t10:o4:1
# text = Fences in the past were much sharper and rustier than they are now
1	Fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rustier	rusty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fences in the past |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Fences in the past *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | Fences *= fence* |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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