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title: 38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets! Good idea? — Fever · tree and pragmatics
description: 38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets! Good idea? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 8 «Fever» 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 1 · ★ · Fever

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38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets! Good idea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** freeze · **To what, where:** mum

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 8 «Fever» 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/8-fever/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* 38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:1
# text = 38.5 and I'm freezing, mum, gimme all the duvets!
1	38.5	38.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gimme	gimme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	duvets	duvet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present · progressive | I | mum and gimme |  |  |  |  | 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:* Good idea?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:2
# text = Good idea?
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	idea	idea	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 {#o1}

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Yes, and a hot water bottle on your head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, and a hot water bottle on your head
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, go sit in a cold bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:o2:1
# text = No, go sit in a cold bath
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a cold bath |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, sweating it out under the lot is best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, sweating it out under the lot is best
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sweating	sweat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweat out** | gerund |  | it |  | the lot |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | sweating |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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

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No, too many covers can make you overheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:8-fever:t1:o4:1
# text = No, too many covers can make you overheat
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | many covers | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overheat** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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