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Test 3 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

A baby has about 300 bones and an adult 206. Where do the missing bones go?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby, missing bones · What happens: have, go · To what, where: 300 bones

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A baby has about 300 bones and an adult 206.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 300	advmod
5	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 bones	nummod
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 adult	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	conj
10	206	206	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 adult	flat
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a baby	300 bones and a adult					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Where do the missing bones go?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
4	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	the missing bones						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They slowly melt away in the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 melt	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 melt	advmod
3	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 melt	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	present	They			the blood		away, slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many of the baby's bones join together as it grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 join	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 bones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 baby	case
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
7	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 join	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 grows	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 join	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	Many of the baby's bones					together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	present	baby						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The body throws them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throws	nsubj
3	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throws	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 throws	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	present	the body	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Babies lose them when their milk teeth fall out, one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 fall	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	compound
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lose	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 fall	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lose	parataxis
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Babies	them = they					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	fall out	present	Babies's milk teeth						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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