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title: Why do people catch more colds after the summer holidays end? — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people catch more colds after the summer holidays end? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

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Why do people catch more colds after the summer holidays end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** catch · **To what, where:** more colds

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t9:1
# text = Why do people catch more colds after the summer holidays end?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present · do-support | people | more colds |  |  | after the holidays end |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |

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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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The colder weather makes new viruses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t9:o1:1
# text = The colder weather makes new viruses
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the colder weather | new viruses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset virus=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shorter days shrink the immune system

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t9:o2:1
# text = Shorter days shrink the immune system
1	Shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	immune	immune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | present | Shorter days | the immune system |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent system=Patient |

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

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Children mix closely indoors again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t9:o3:1
# text = Children mix closely indoors again
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | present | Children |  |  |  | again | closely, indoors *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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School food gives colds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:7-colds-and-flu:t9:o4:1
# text = School food gives colds
1	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | School food | colds |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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