Test 9 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

If a child slept only four hours a night for many weeks, what might happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, many weeks · What happens: sleep, happen

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 slept	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 four	advmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weeks	amod
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 weeks	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	a child				hour; night; week		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	might	many weeks						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

They would learn twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 learn	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 learn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	They					fast, twice property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing at all, because sleep is not really needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needed	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 needed	mark
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 needed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 needed	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 needed	advmod
10	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		sleep					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Growth, learning and health could suffer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suffer	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 learning	punct
3	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Growth	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 health	cc
5	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growth	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 suffer	aux
7	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund	Growth and health not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	suffer	could	Growth and health						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would grow much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod

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

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