Test 7 · Mammals and how they care for their young

Why is a long childhood useful for human children?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: long childhood · What happens: be

This is test 7 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 childhood	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 childhood	amod
5	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	nsubj
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 useful	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a long childhood					for human children; useful 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

It stops them from getting ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 getting	mark
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	them = they					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality
2	get	gerund						ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It means they need no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	they	no food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

It keeps them small and light for longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 light	cc
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 longer	case
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 keeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	them = they				long, small property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It gives time to learn a great deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It				time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	learn	to-infinitive		a great deal					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic

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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