Test 9 · ★ · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m…

Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slower than a horse's?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heart · What happens: expect, beat · To what, where: heart

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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	4 expect	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expect	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 expect	nsubj
4	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 heart	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shrew	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shrew	amod
8	shrew	shrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heart	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 shrew	case
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expect	obl
11	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 heart	acl
12	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 beating	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 slower	cc
14	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 faster	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slower	obl
18	's	's	PART	_	17 horse	case
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would		a tiny shrew's heart					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	beat	gerund	a tiny shrew's heart not said here					fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Slower: small animals' hearts beat slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hearts	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 hearts	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hearts	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 animals	case
6	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beat	nsubj
7	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	small animals's Slower hearts					slow property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Faster: small animals' hearts usually beat faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hearts	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 hearts	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hearts	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 animals	case
6	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beat	nsubj
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 beat	advmod
8	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	small animals's Faster hearts					fast, usually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The same: all hearts beat at one speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 same	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beat	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hearts	det
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 speed	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 speed	nummod
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	the same			one speed			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Slower: small hearts need less blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hearts	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Slower	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hearts	amod
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 blood	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Slower small hearts	less blood					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme

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