Test 2 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight. What does real growing look like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: drink, grow, be · To what, where: potion, cartoon

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	nsubj
7	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 potion	det
9	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drinks	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grows	cc
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drinks	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 metre	det
13	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taller	obl:unmarked
14	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 grows	xcomp
15	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	14 taller	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a boy	a potion		a cartoon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient
2	grow	present	a boy not said here					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 does real growing look like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 look	amod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	5 look	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A whole metre every year until you turn ten, then it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 metre	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 metre	amod
3	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metre	nmod:unmarked
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 turn	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 turn	nsubj
8	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 metre	advcl
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 turn	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 metre	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stops	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	you	ten					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ten=Theme
2	stop	present	a whole metre every year				then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A few centimetres a year, added slowly at the growth plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 centimetres	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 centimetres	amod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 added	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centimetres	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 centimetres	punct
7	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 added	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 plates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plates	det
11	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plates	compound
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 added	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	a few centimetres a year			the growth plates		slowly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Growing only in summer, never in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 summer	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 summer	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 winter	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 winter	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund					summer; winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Growing only on birthdays, all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 birthdays	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 birthdays	case
4	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Growing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
6	all	all	ADV	_	1 Growing	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 all	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund				birthdays		all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location

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