Test 13 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

Zoe reckons everyone the same age should be the same height. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe, same age · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: everyone, same height

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 reckons	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 age	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 height	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 height	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 height	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 height	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 height	amod
11	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 height	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Zoe	everyone					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent everyone=Attribute
2	is a	should	the same age	the same height					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 · ✓ the right answer

No, everyone grows at their own pace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 pace	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pace	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pace	amod
8	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	everyone					at their own pace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location

Option 2

Yes, the same age means the same height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 age	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 height	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 height	amod
9	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the same age	the same height					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Topic

Option 3

No, older children are always shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 shorter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shorter	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shorter	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 shorter	advmod
7	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	older children					always, short property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, unless they eat sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 eat	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

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