Test 4 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

Which is true about growth spurts?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 spurts	case
5	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spurts	compound
6	spurts	spurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about growth spurts; 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

They happen only once a year in summer

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	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 happen	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 summer	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	They				summer	once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They come at different ages for different children

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	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 ages	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ages	amod
5	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They				at different ages	for different children	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at age=Location

Option 3

They happen to everyone on the morning of their tenth birthday

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	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 happen	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 birthday	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birthday	nmod:poss
10	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birthday	amod
11	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	They				morning	to everyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They only happen to boys

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 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 boys	case
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	They					to boys	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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