Test 11 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

«the tooth I lost last week'll grow back, it was a big one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, tooth, big one · What happens: lose, grow back, be · To what, where: tooth, big one

This is test 11 of lesson 71 «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tooth	det
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tooth	acl:relcl
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl:unmarked
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past	I	the tooth not said here	week		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality
2	grow back in a quote	future	the tooth				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	tooth	a big one			tree rules
4	is	present	a big one			right property	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.

The options

Option 1

Only front teeth grow back, not the side ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teeth	advmod
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ones	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	compound
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	front teeth	the side ones					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

All teeth grow back as long as you brush them twice a day without fail

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 teeth	det
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 brush	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 brush	nsubj
9	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brush	obj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 brush	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brush	obl:unmarked
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 fail	case
15	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brush	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	all teeth					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	brush	present	you	teeth = tooth			day	without fail; twice property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A lost adult tooth never grows back, only baby teeth are replaced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tooth	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tooth	amod
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	compound
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 grows	advmod
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grows	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 replaced	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 teeth	advmod
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teeth	compound
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 replaced	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 replaced	aux:pass
13	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not grow back	present	a lost adult tooth		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	replace	present · passive		baby teeth	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 4

Teeth grow back every ten years in grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 years	det
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 ups	case
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ups	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct
10	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Teeth			grown ups	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in up=Location
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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