Test 13 · The skeleton and muscles

my big sis reckons a baby has fewer bones than us cos it's tiny. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: big sis, baby · What happens: reckon, have, be · To what, where: fewer bones

This is test 13 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sis	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sis	amod
3	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckons	ccomp
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	15 tiny	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tiny	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tiny	cop
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 has	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my big sis			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present	a baby	fewer bones	than us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	is	present	baby		tiny property	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

Yes, a baby has no bones until it can walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 bones	det
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 walk	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 walk	aux
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a baby	no bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	walk	can	baby						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, a baby has exactly 206 like an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 206	advmod
7	206	206	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 has	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 adult	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 206	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a baby	206				like a adult	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 206=Patient

Option 3

Yes, a baby has about 100 and grows more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 100	advmod
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grows	cc
9	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a baby	100					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 100=Patient
2	grow	present	a baby not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a baby has about 300 and some join together later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 300	advmod
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 join	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 join	nsubj
10	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 join	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 join	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a baby	300					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Patient
2	join	present	some					late, together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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