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title: My cough's lasted a month and I'm wheezy. Just a long cough? — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: My cough's lasted a month and I'm wheezy. Just a long cough? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 7 «Colds and flu» 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 11 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

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My cough's lasted a month and I'm wheezy. Just a long cough?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** last, be, cough

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 7 «Colds and flu» 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/7-colds-and-flu/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My cough's lasted a month and I'm wheezy.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:1
# text = My cough's lasted a month and I'm wheezy.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wheezy	wheezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | participle |  |  |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | wheezy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cough** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom cough «state transitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Just a long cough?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:2
# text = Just a long cough?
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Get it checked by a GP

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:o1:1
# text = Get it checked by a GP
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a GP | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gp=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, coughs last a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, coughs last a year
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	coughs	cough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | coughs |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, it means a broken rib

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:o3:1
# text = No, it means a broken rib
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	rib	rib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | a broken rib |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, ignore it and it goes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes, ignore it and it goes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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