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title: Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%". Is ordinary soap… — Germs, the immune system and hand-wash… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%". Is ordinary soap enough? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 7 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

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Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%". Is ordinary soap enough?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** buy, kill, be · **To what, where:** antibacterial soap, ordinary soap

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:1
# text = Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%".
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	super	super	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	99.9	99.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | Mum | antibacterial soap |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is ordinary soap enough?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:2
# text = Is ordinary soap enough?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | ordinary soap |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yes, ordinary soap and good washing work well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:o1:1
# text = Yes, ordinary soap and good washing work well
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, normal soap does nothing at all against germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:o2:1
# text = No, normal soap does nothing at all against germs
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | normal soap | nothing |  | all |  | against germs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Only antibacterial soap works properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:o3:1
# text = Only antibacterial soap works properly
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | antibacterial soap |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only very hot water works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t7:o4:1
# text = Only very hot water works
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | hot water |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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