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 | to whom | where | when | 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 | to whom | where | when | 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 | to whom | where | when | other | 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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