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title: Sam has a cold and asks for antibiotics. What should the doctor say? — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam has a cold and asks for antibiotics. What should the doctor say? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

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Sam has a cold and asks for antibiotics. What should the doctor say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sam, doctor · **What happens:** have, ask, say · **To what, where:** cold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam has a cold and asks for antibiotics.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:1
# text = Sam has a cold and asks for antibiotics.
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sam | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for antibiotics | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* What should the doctor say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:2
# text = What should the doctor say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Take double antibiotics for faster healing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:o1:1
# text = Take double antibiotics for faster healing
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | double antibiotics |  |  |  | for faster healing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme for healing=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Antibiotics cure every illness at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:o2:1
# text = Antibiotics cure every illness at once
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cure	cure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present | Antibiotics | every illness |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Antibiotics do not work on cold viruses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:o3:1
# text = Antibiotics do not work on cold viruses
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	viruses	virus	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 | Antibiotics |  |  |  |  | on cold viruses | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on virus=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Antibiotics turn a cold into flu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t1:o4:1
# text = Antibiotics turn a cold into flu
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Antibiotics | a cold |  | flu |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cold=Theme into flu=Trajectory |

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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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