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Test 8 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

A 12-year-old is shorter than his classmates. What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 12-year-old · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A 12-year-old is shorter than his classmates.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 12-year-old	det
2	12-year-old	12-year-old	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shorter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 classmates	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 classmates	nmod:poss
7	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shorter	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shorter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a 12-year-old					than his classmates; short 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.

Sentence 2: What is most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He sleeps too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	He	much					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He grows at his own pace and may catch up later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 pace	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pace	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pace	amod
6	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catch	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	aux
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 catch	compound:prt
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	He					at his own pace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location
2	catch up	may	He not said here					late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He has the wrong number of bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bones	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	the wrong number of bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient

Option 4

He will never grow again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	future	He				again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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