Test 5 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

«my legs ache every night after football, it's my bones snapping longer innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: legs, football, bones · What happens: ache, be, snap, innit · To what, where: bones

This is test 5 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	_	4 ache	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ache	nsubj
4	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ache	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 football	case
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ache	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bones	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bones	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bones	cop
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bones	nmod:poss
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ache	obl
14	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 bones	acl
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 snapping	advmod
16	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 snapping	xcomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 innit	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 innit	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ache	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ache in a quote	present	my legs		after football; night		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	football	my bones			tree rules
3	snap in a quote	gerund	my bones not said here			long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	innit in a quote	infinitive	my bones not said here				tree rules
5	is	present				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

Yes, and you should stop playing sport for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	should	you						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	you not said here	sport				for good	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sport=Theme for good=Eventuality

Option 2

No, it is your toenails growing too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 toenails	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toenails	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 toenails	cop
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 toenails	nmod:poss
6	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 toenails	acl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	your toenails					tree rules
2	grow	gerund	your toenails not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, bones grow very slowly; tired muscles may be part of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 part	punct
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muscles	amod
9	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 part	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 part	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 part	cop
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	bones					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	may	tired muscles	part				of part	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, bones grow a centimetre every night with a snap, that's the ache

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 centimetre	det
6	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl:unmarked
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 snap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snap	det
11	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ache	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 ache	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ache	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ache	det
16	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	bones	a centimetre			night	with a snap	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent centimetre=Patient with snap=Instrument
2	is a	present	that	the ache					tree rules

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