Test 11 · The human life cycle and growing up

why do I look a bit like mum and a bit like dad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: look · To what, where: bit

This is test 11 of lesson 92 «The human life cycle 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 mum	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bit	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mum	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 dad	case
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	I	a bit				like mum and a bit; like dad	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Attribute

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

You get genes from both parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 parents	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 parents	det
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	You	genes				from both parents	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gene=Theme from parent=Source

Option 2

You get genes only from your grandparents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 grandparents	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 grandparents	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandparents	nmod:poss
7	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	You	genes		your grandparents			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gene=Theme from grandparent=Source

Option 3

You get all your genes from your mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 genes	det:predet
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 genes	nmod:poss
5	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	You	your genes				from your mum	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gene=Theme from mum=Source

Option 4

You copy their faces as you grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 faces	nmod:poss
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 grow	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 copy	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	You	their faces					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	grow up	present	you						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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