Test 3 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food

What would happen if you measured your height first thing in the morning and again at bedtime?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, measure · To what, where: bedtime, height

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 6 «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 measured	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 measured	nsubj
6	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 height	nmod:poss
8	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measured	obj
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measured	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measured	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
15	again	again	ADV	_	3 happen	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 bedtime	case
17	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				bedtime			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bedtime=Location
2	measure a condition, not said to happen	past	you	your height			morning		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

You'd be a little bit taller at bedtime instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 taller	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taller	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taller	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl:unmarked
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 bedtime	case
9	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 taller	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	You			bedtime		a little bit obl:unmarked; instead, tall property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You'd be a tiny bit taller in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 taller	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taller	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taller	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl:unmarked
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	You				morning	a tiny bit obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules

Option 3

You'd be exactly the same height both times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 height	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 height	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 height	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 height	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 height	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 times	det
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 height	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	You	the same height			time	exactly property	tree rules

Option 4

You'd be shorter in the morning after lying down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 shorter	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shorter	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 lying	mark
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shorter	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	You				morning	short property	tree rules
2	lie down	gerund	You not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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