Test 8 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…

«I'm 20, if I eat loads I'll keep growing taller» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, truth · What happens: be, eat, keep, grow · To what, where: 20, loads

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 20	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 20	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 20	cop
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 20	parataxis
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 keep	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 keep	aux
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
13	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keep	xcomp
14	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 growing	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 taller	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 growing	obl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 20	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	I	20		tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I	loads		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
3	keep in a quote	future	I			tree rules
4	grow in a quote	gerund	I not said here		tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	the truth			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Eating more always makes you taller, at any age, as long as you eat the right food

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Eating	obj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 makes	advmod
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 age	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 age	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 age	det
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 makes	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 food	det
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	amod
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		more			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	make	present	Eating	you	at any age	always, long, tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
3	eat	present	you	the right food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Once growth plates close in the late teens, bones stop growing longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 plates	case
2	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plates	compound
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	nsubj
4	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 teens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teens	det
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teens	amod
8	teens	teen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 close	conj
12	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	close	present	growth plates	in the late teens	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in teen=Topic
2	stop	present	bones		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	bones not said here	long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only sleep makes adults taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sleep	advmod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	sleep	adults				tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset adult=Product

Option 4

You grow taller until you are 50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	xcomp
4	until	until	ADP	_	7 50	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 50	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 50	cop
7	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	You					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you				until 50		tree rules

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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