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title: Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months. A scientist arrives with a cold. What would happen? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 1 · ★ · Colds, coughs and the weather

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Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months. A scientist arrives with a cold. What would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, nobody, scientist · **What happens:** go, have, arrive, happen · **To what, where:** Pole station, cold

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths 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/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:1
# text = Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate |  |  | the Pole station |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to station=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | nobody | a cold |  |  | for months |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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.

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*Sentence 2:* A scientist arrives with a cold.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:2
# text = A scientist arrives with a cold.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | a scientist |  |  |  |  | with a cold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* What would happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:3
# text = What would happen?
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	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 |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody could ever catch a cold that cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:o1:1
# text = Nobody could ever catch a cold that cold
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | could | Nobody | a cold |  |  | ever |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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People might start catching colds, because the virus has arrived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:o2:1
# text = People might start catching colds, because the virus has arrived
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | might | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **catch** | gerund | People *not said here* | colds |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | present · perfect | the virus |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The cold air would kill the virus at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:o3:1
# text = The cold air would kill the virus at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | would | the cold air | the virus |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Everyone already had colds from the freezing air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather:t1:o4:1
# text = Everyone already had colds from the freezing air
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Everyone | colds |  | the freezing air |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |

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