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title: If nobody washed their hands, what would most likely happen? — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: If nobody washed their hands, what would most likely happen? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

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If nobody washed their hands, what would most likely happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody, hands · **What happens:** wash, happen · **To what, where:** hands

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t5:1
# text = If nobody washed their hands, what would most likely happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | nobody | their hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | would | their hands |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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People would become stronger and fitter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t5:o1:1
# text = People would become stronger and fitter
1	People	people	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	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fitter	fit	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would change for anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing would change for anyone
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for anyone | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Germs would die out from loneliness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t5:o3:1
# text = Germs would die out from loneliness
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | would | Germs |  |  | loneliness |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from loneliness=Causer |

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

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More people would fall ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:37-germs-hygiene-vaccines:t5:o4:1
# text = More people would fall ill
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | More people |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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