Test 18 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

Leo's suddenly way taller than everyone n Kai keeps saying it's cos he's on growth pills, everyone's saying it. what's likely true

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: n, way, everyone · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 way	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leo	case
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 way	advmod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taller	obl:unmarked
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 taller	obl
8	n	n	X	_	10 keeps	nsubj
9	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
11	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keeps	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pills	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pills	cop
14	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	19 pills	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pills	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pills	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 pills	case
18	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pills	compound
19	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saying	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 saying	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 saying	aux
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 pills	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saying	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taller	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 true	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 true	cop
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 true	amod
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taller	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	n			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	n not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	way		cos growth pills	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	present			true 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is just rumour; children grow at different speeds and it is normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rumour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rumour	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 rumour	advmod
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 grow	punct
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rumour	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 speeds	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 speeds	amod
10	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 normal	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 normal	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 normal	cop
14	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	rumour			tree rules
2	grow	present	children		different speeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location
3	is	present	rumour			normal property	tree rules

Option 2

Being tall early means something is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tall	cop
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 tall	advmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		early, tall property	tree rules
2	mean	present	tall		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	something	wrong property	tree rules

Option 3

It must be pills, since nobody could grow that fast in such a short time

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pills	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pills	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pills	cop
4	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 grow	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pills	acl:relcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fast	mark
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 grow	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	pills					tree rules
2	grow	could	nobody	pills not said here			time	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pill=Theme

Option 4

Leo must be older than the rest of the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 older	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 older	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 older	cop
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 older	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 class	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Leo					than the rest of the class; old property	tree rules

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