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title: Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?» Best reply? — Changing-room germs · tree and pragmatics
description: Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?» Best reply? Test 8 of lesson 59 «Changing-room germs» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Changing-room germs

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Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?» Best reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** It, towel · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** towel, big deal

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This is test 8 of lesson 59 «Changing-room germs» 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/59-changing-room-germs/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:1
# text = Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?»
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | It | a towel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a towel | the big deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Best reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:2
# text = Best reply?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Damp shared towels carry skin germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:o1:1
# text = Damp shared towels carry skin germs
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Damp shared towels | skin germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only new towels carry germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:o2:1
# text = Only new towels carry germs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | new towels | germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Towels can't hold any germs once they're dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:o3:1
# text = Towels can't hold any germs once they're dry
1	Towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** | can | Towels | any germs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Towels *= towel* |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Molly's towel is cleaner than hers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:59-changing-room-germs:t8:o4:1
# text = Molly's towel is cleaner than hers
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Molly's towel |  |  |  |  | than Molly; clean *property* | tree rules |

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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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