Test 2 · The human life cycle and growing up

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Adults keep growing taller every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 growing	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Adults				year		tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Adults not said here					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Everyone starts puberty at exactly 13

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	puberty	puberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 13	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 13	advmod
6	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Everyone	puberty		13			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puberty=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A baby grows faster in its first year than an adult ever does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grows	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 year	nmod:poss
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 does	mark
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 does	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 does	advmod
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a baby				year	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	a adult				ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Newborns have fewer bones than adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Newborns	newborn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bones	nmod

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

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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