Exam question 1 · Growing, seeing and hearing

Identify the most accurate statement concerning the growth of children of the same age.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, accurate statement, children · What happens: identify, concern, grow · To what, where: accurate statement, growth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statement	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 statement	amod
5	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statement	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 growth	det
8	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 growth	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 age	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 age	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 age	amod
14	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 children	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the accurate statement	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent statement=Theme
2	concern	gerund	the accurate statement not said here	the growth of children of the same age	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus growth=Experiencer
3	grow		children of the same age		nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

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

Short children never grow taller later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	Short children					late, tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

All children of the same age attain very nearly the same height in the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attain	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 age	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 age	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
7	attain	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 nearly	advmod
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 height	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 height	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 height	amod
12	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attain	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	present	all children of the same age	the same height			in the end		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Growth spurts occur at different ages, so heights differ greatly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spurts	compound
2	spurts	spurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occur	nsubj
3	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ages	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ages	amod
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occur	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 differ	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 differ	advmod
9	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 differ	nsubj
10	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 occur	conj
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	10 differ	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	Growth spurts				at different ages		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at age=Location
2	differ	present	heights					greatly property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Tall children continue growing longest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continue	nsubj
3	continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 continue	xcomp
5	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 growing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	present	Tall children						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Tall children not said here					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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