Test 1 · ★ · Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stro…

«drink loads of milk and eat 5 dinners and you'll be taller than dad» says a friend. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: drink loads, you, friend · What happens: eat, be, say · To what, where: 5 dinners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 361 «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» 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: «drink loads of milk and eat 5 dinners and you'll be taller than dad» says a friend.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 loads	punct
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	compound
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 dinners	nummod
9	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taller	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 taller	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 taller	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 taller	cop
14	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 eat	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 dad	case
16	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taller	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taller	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 friend	det
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	drink loads of milk	5 dinners		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	is in a quote	future	you		than dad; tall property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	a friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Food builds the body, but extra food cannot make you taller than your genes allow

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 builds	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 genes	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 genes	nmod:poss
16	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 taller	obl
17	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 builds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present	Food	the body		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material body=Product
2	not make	can	extra food	you	tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product
3	allow	present	Food not said here			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

Yes, but only if the milk is cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cold	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cold	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the milk					cold property	tree rules

Option 3

No, food has nothing to do with growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 has	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 growing	mark
9	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	food	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	food not said here	nothing not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	gerund	food not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, every extra dinner adds a centimetre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 adds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dinner	det
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dinner	amod
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adds	nsubj
6	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 centimetre	det
8	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	every extra dinner	a centimetre					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=Patient

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