Test 4 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

What would happen if you measured an astronaut just back from months in space?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, measure · To what, where: astronaut

This is test 4 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	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	_	6 measured	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 measured	nsubj
6	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 astronaut	det
8	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measured	obj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 back	advmod
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 measured	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 months	case
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 back	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 space	case
14	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	measure a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a astronaut					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme astronaut=Value

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

They would be much shorter for the rest of their life, as space squashes bones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shorter	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shorter	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shorter	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 shorter	advmod
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shorter	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 squashes	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 squashes	mark
14	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 squashes	nsubj
15	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shorter	conj
16	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 squashes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					for the rest of their life; short property	tree rules
2	squash	present	space	bones					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would be a few centimetres taller for a while, then shrink back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taller	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taller	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taller	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 centimetres	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 centimetres	amod
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taller	obl:unmarked
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shrink	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 shrink	advmod
13	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 taller	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 shrink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They				while	a few centimetres obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	shrink back	infinitive					then		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They would be exactly the same height as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 height	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 height	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 height	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 height	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 height	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	They	the same height				before, exactly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would keep growing taller on Earth for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 growing	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	They						tree rules
2	grow	gerund	They not said here			Earth	year	tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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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