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Test 6 · ★ · Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stro…

«my great-great-grandad was way shorter than me, so height's not in your genes, right?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: great great grandad, height, best answer · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: way, genes

This is test 6 · ★ 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: «my great-great-grandad was way shorter than me, so height's not in your genes, right?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandad	nmod:poss
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grandad	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 great	punct
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grandad	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 great	punct
7	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shorter	obl:unmarked
10	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 shorter	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 genes	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	20 genes	advmod
15	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 genes	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 genes	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 genes	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 genes	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 genes	nmod:poss
20	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shorter	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shorter	punct
22	right	right	INTJ	_	10 shorter	discourse
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 shorter	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 shorter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	my great great grandad	way					tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present	height			your genes			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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Right, genes have nothing to do with height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 height	case
9	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	genes	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	genes not said here	nothing not said here				with height	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Genes matter, but better food and health let today's children reach more of their height

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 health	cc
8	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	conj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matter	parataxis
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 children	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 today	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reach	nsubj
13	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	xcomp
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 reach	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 height	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 height	nmod:poss
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Genes						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	let	present	better food and health						tree rules
3	reach	present	today's children	more					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 3

People got taller because they stretch more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 got	xcomp
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 stretch	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretch	nsubj
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 stretch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	People					tall property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stretch	present	People	more					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient

Option 4

People in the past were short because they walked a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 short	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 past	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 past	det
4	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 walked	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walked	nsubj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	People in the past					short property	tree rules
2	walk	past	People	a lot					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lot=Trajectory

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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