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Test 7 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

A boy in Ohio is the shortest in his year and worries about it. What would a doctor tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, doctor · What happens: be, worry, tell · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Ohio is the shortest in his year and worries about it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shortest	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shortest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shortest	det
7	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 year	nmod:poss
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shortest	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worries	cc
12	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shortest	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worries	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shortest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a boy in Ohio				year	short property	tree rules
2	worry	present	a boy in Ohio not said here					about it	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What would a doctor tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	a doctor		boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only boys who play basketball grow tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 boys	advmod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boys	acl:relcl
5	basketball	basketball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	boys	basketball					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketball=Theme
2	grow	present	boys					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He needs to stop eating sweets to grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sweets	amod
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grow	mark
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	eating sweets					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sweet=Eventuality
3	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He will stay the shortest for the rest of his life, whatever happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shortest	det
5	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 stay	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happens	punct
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 happens	nsubj
14	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rest	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	He	the shortest				for the rest of his life	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme short=Location
2	happen	present	whatever						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Children grow at different speeds, and many grow later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 speeds	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speeds	amod
5	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grow	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Children			different speeds			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location
2	grow	present	many					late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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