Test 13 · The human life cycle and growing up

my sister reckons a baby has fewer bones than an adult. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, baby · What happens: reckon, have · To what, where: fewer bones

This is test 13 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 adult	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my sister						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present	a baby	fewer bones				than a adult	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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

No, babies and adults have exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 adults	cc
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 babies	conj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	babies and adults					same property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, babies grow new bones every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bones	amod
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	babies	new bones			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a newborn has more bones, and some join together as we grow

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 newborn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 newborn	det
4	newborn	newborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bones	amod
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 join	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 join	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 join	nsubj
11	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 join	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 grow	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 grow	nsubj
15	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 join	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a newborn	more bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	join	present	some		together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	grow	present	we			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, adults have twice as many bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 many	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	adults	many bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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