Test 8 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…

Why would a real giant of nine times Alice's height have a terrible time standing up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real giant, terrible time · What happens: have, stand up

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 have	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 giant	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giant	nmod
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 height	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Alice	case
11	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
16	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 time	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 standing	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	a real giant of nine times Alice's height				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand up	gerund	a terrible time not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Giants are always too sleepy to stand up for long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 sleepy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 sleepy	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 sleepy	advmod
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleepy	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stand	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 long	case
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Giants					always, sleepy property	tree rules
2	stand up	to-infinitive	Giants not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its weight would grow far faster than the strength of its bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 weight	nmod:poss
2	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 strength	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strength	det
9	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bones	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bones	nmod:poss
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strength	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Its weight					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The air at that height has no oxygen in it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 height	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 height	det
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 air	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 oxygen	det
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the air at that height	no oxygen		oxygen		at all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient

Option 4

Giants have no knees at all, so their legs would not bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 knees	det
4	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knees	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bend	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 bend	advmod
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bend	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bend	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bend	advmod
13	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Giants	no knees		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient
2	not bend	would	Giants's legs						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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