--- title: Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The last lesson of the course is a puzzle hunt with no sums: find the odd one out and say why, put steps and da --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Olympiad: odd one out, the right order… # Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★ Lesson 77 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/0/) — The last lesson of the course is a puzzle hunt with no sums: find the odd one out and say why, put steps and dates in the right order, check a claim, and read what people really mean when they blow things up or play them down. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/1/) — An odd-one-out puzzle always has a reason, and the reason is the real answer: cold, flu, a viral sore throat and a bacterial chest infection look alike, but only one of them is helped by antibiotics. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/2/) — Order puzzles test what the course taught step by step: after a head knock the way back goes rest, everyday activity, light exercise, non-contact training, full training and only then matches, and skipping a step is the trap. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/3/) — Tall tales come in two sizes: «I'm literally dying of thirst» after a match just means thirsty, but «it's just a scratch» about a gaping cut, or «I'm fine, man» from a mate who keeps asking the score, plays down something real, and the wise move is to check and tell an adult. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/4/) — Antibiotics work on bacteria, not on viruses; colds, flu and most sore throats are caused by viruses. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/5/) — Germs include bacteria, viruses and fungi; histamine is not a germ but a substance the body releases in an allergy. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/6/) — Burns are cooled under cool running water for 20 minutes, then covered loosely with cling film; butter, toothpaste and ice are never put on a burn. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/7/) — Return to sport after concussion goes in stages: rest, everyday activity, light exercise, non-contact training, full training, then matches, and school comes back before sport. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/9/) — If someone is in trouble in water: Call 999, Tell them to float, Throw something that floats, and never go in after them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/10/) — Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796; Semmelweis showed handwashing saved lives in the 1840s; Pasteur and Koch proved germs cause disease in the 1860s to 1880s; Fleming noticed penicillin in 1928; smallpox was declared wiped out in 1980. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/11/) — Carrots don't give night vision, the 5-second rule is a myth, dock leaves have no proven medicine in them, and weeing on a jellyfish sting doesn't help. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/12/) — Tetanus germs live in soil, so the danger in a wound is the dirt, not the rust. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/13/) — A sore arm or a slight fever for a day or two after a jab is the immune system responding, not the disease. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/14/) — Scrum caps and helmets help with cuts and bumps but cannot stop concussion. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/15/) — Heat exhaustion should get better within about 30 minutes of cooling; still unwell after that, confused, or hot but not sweating means heatstroke and 999. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/77-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales/16/) — After a missed dose of medicine you never take two to catch up. - ← previous: [Olympiad: body numbers, clocks and scores ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/76-olympiad-body-numbers-clocks-and-scores/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)