Test 8 · ★ · Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stro…

What would happen if a 20-year-old ate a huge amount of food every day for a year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 20-year-old · What happens: happen, eat, amount · To what, where: huge amount, food

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 20-year-old	det
6	20-year-old	20-year-old	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 amount	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amount	amod
10	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amount	nmod
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 year	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	a 20-year-old	a huge amount of food	day; year	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient
3	amount			food		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

His growth plates would open again

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	3 plates	nmod:poss
2	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plates	compound
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	would	His growth plates				again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would get wider, not taller, because his growth plates have closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taller	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 taller	advmod
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wider	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 closed	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 closed	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plates	nmod:poss
11	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plates	compound
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 closed	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 closed	aux
14	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He					wide property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	close	present · perfect · passive		his growth plates					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He would shrink a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shrink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shrink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	would	He	a little					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He would grow about 10 centimetres taller, as long as he ate plenty of milk and meat

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 centimetres	nummod
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taller	obl:unmarked
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 ate	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	advcl
14	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 milk	case
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plenty	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 meat	cc
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plenty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	He					long, tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	he	plenty of milk and meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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