Test 5 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up
A 9-year-old girl notices her body starting to change before her friends'. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old girl, body · What happens: notice, start, change, be · To what, where: body
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 9-year-old girl notices her body starting to change before her friends'.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notices | nsubj |
| 8 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notices | obj |
| 11 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 body | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 change | mark |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 starting | xcomp |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 change | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 friends | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 notices | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | a old girl | girl's body | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | girl's body not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | girl's body not said here | before girl's friends | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Puberty always starts at exactly 12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 starts | advmod |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 12 | case |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 12 | advmod |
| 6 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 starts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Puberty | 12 | always property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Puberty starts at different times for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 starts | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 times | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Puberty | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
She is ill and must see a doctor about it at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ill | cop |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ill | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 doctor | det |
| 8 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doctor | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | must | She not said here | a doctor | about doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
Option 4
Only boys go through puberty
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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 puberty | case |
| 5 | puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | boys | puberty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through puberty=Initial_Location |
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