Test 6 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

«sod it, I'll stay up till 1, sleep's a waste of time» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sod, sleep, best answer · What happens: stay up, be · To what, where: waste

This is test 6 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	_	2 sod	punct
2	sod	sod	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sod	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sod	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stay	compound:prt
9	till	till	ADP	_	10 1	case
10	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waste	punct
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waste	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 waste	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 waste	det
15	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waste	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 time	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stay up in a quote	future	sod		till 1	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	sleep	a waste	time	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer	a waste		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

Sleep does nothing, so staying up is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 does	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
6	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fine	csubj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 staying	compound:prt
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 does	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Sleep	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	stay up	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	staying		fine property	tree rules

Option 2

You only grow while you are awake, running and moving about in the daytime, never at night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 awake	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 running	punct
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grow	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moving	cc
11	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 running	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 moving	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 daytime	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 daytime	det
15	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moving	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 night	punct
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 night	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	You		night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you			awake property	tree rules
3	run	gerund	You not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move about	gerund	You not said here	the daytime		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in daytime=Trajectory

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

Sleep is when most growth hormone is released and the brain sorts what you learned

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 when	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 when	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 hormone	amod
5	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hormone	compound
6	hormone	hormone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 released	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 released	aux:pass
8	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 when	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sorts	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brain	det
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sorts	nsubj
12	sorts	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 released	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 learned	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 learned	nsubj
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sorts	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sleep		when property	tree rules
2	release	present · passive		most growth hormone		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
3	sort	present	the brain			tree rules
4	learn	past	you			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 4

Grown-ups need more sleep than children anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sleep	amod
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sleep	nmod
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	Grown ups	more sleep				than children; anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme

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