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title: What would happen if healthy kids never had the flu spray? — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if healthy kids never had the flu spray? Test 4 · ★★★ 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 4 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

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What would happen if healthy kids never had the flu spray?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** healthy kids · **What happens:** happen, not have · **To what, where:** flu spray

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This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t4:1
# text = What would happen if healthy kids never had the flu spray?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | healthy kids | the flu spray |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=Patient |

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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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Nobody would ever get flu again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t4:o1:1
# text = Nobody would ever get flu again
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Nobody | flu |  |  | ever; again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flu=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Colds would disappear from schools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t4:o2:1
# text = Colds would disappear from schools
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | would | Colds |  |  | schools |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from school=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Flu could spread more easily to babies and grandparents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t4:o3:1
# text = Flu could spread more easily to babies and grandparents
1	Flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | could | Flu |  |  |  |  | to babies and grandparents; easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children would become immune to all illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t4:o4:1
# text = Children would become immune to all illness
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	immune	immune	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Children |  |  |  |  | immune *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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