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title: Why do you wash between fingers and under nails, not just palms? — Germs, the immune system and hand-wash… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do you wash between fingers and under nails, not just palms? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

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Why do you wash between fingers and under nails, not just palms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wash · **To what, where:** palms

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t9:1
# text = Why do you wash between fingers and under nails, not just palms?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | present · do-support | you | palms |  |  |  | between fingers and nails | vn floss-41.2.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Palms have no skin for germs to sit on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t9:o1:1
# text = Palms have no skin for germs to sit on
1	Palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Palms | no skin |  |  |  | for germs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 2 | **sit on** | to-infinitive | Palms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It looks nicer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t9:o2:1
# text = It looks nicer
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | It |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nails clean themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t9:o3:1
# text = Nails clean themselves
1	Nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | present | Nails | Nails *= nail* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

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

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Germs hide there too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:t9:o4:1
# text = Germs hide there too
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Germs |  |  | there |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «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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