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title: If all colds come from viruses, why can't doctors just make one cold… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: If all colds come from viruses, why can't doctors just make one cold vaccine? Test 12 · ★★★ 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 12 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

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If all colds come from viruses, why can't doctors just make one cold vaccine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** colds, doctors · **What happens:** come, not make · **To what, where:** viruses, one cold vaccine

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This is test 12 · ★★★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t12:1
# text = If all colds come from viruses, why can't doctors just make one cold vaccine?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | all colds |  |  | viruses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **make** | can | doctors | one cold vaccine |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vaccine=Product |

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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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They already did and it is kept secret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t12:o1:1
# text = They already did and it is kept secret
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Colds are not real illnesses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t12:o2:1
# text = Colds are not real illnesses
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Colds | real illnesses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Vaccines don't work inside noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t12:o3:1
# text = Vaccines don't work inside noses
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | Vaccines |  |  | noses |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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There are more than 200 different cold viruses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t12:o4:1
# text = There are more than 200 different cold viruses
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | 200 different cold viruses |  |  | there |  |  | 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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