Test 5 · ★ · Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stro…

A teenager suddenly keeps bumping into door frames and tripping over his own feet. What is a likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teenager · What happens: keep, bump, trip, be · To what, where: door frames, own feet, likely reason

This is test 5 · ★ 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: A teenager suddenly keeps bumping into door frames and tripping over his own feet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teenager	det
2	teenager	teenager	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 frames	case
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frames	compound
8	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bumping	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tripping	cc
10	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bumping	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 feet	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feet	amod
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tripping	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a teenager		suddenly property	tree rules
2	bump	gerund	a teenager not said here	door frames		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into frame=Location
3	trip	gerund	a teenager not said here	teenager's own feet		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over foot=Trajectory

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 a likely reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a likely reason					tree rules

The options

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

His hands, feet and legs grew fast and his brain has not caught up yet

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hands	nmod:poss
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feet	punct
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hands	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 legs	cc
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hands	conj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grew	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brain	nmod:poss
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 caught	advmod
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 grew	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 caught	compound:prt
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	His hands and feet and legs					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not catch up	present · perfect · passive		his brain			yet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

His bones are getting shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 getting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	His bones					short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

His feet have stopped growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect · passive		His feet					tree rules
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

His eyes have stopped working properly and he needs glasses for everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 working	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 needs	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
10	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 needs	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 everything	case
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect	His eyes			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	His eyes not said here		properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	need	present	he	glasses	for everything	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme

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