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Test 3 · The human life cycle and growing up

A 25-year-old wants to grow 10 centimetres taller by stretching. Why will it not work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: year old · What happens: want, grow, stretch, not work

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: A 25-year-old wants to grow 10 centimetres taller by stretching.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 25	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 centimetres	nummod
11	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taller	obl:unmarked
12	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grow	xcomp
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 stretching	mark
14	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 taller	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a year old						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	a year old not said here					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch	gerund	a year old not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Why will it not work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 work	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 work	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	future	year old = old						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She needs to stretch for much longer each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stretch	mark
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 longer	case
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stretch	obl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stretch not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here				day		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

She is stretching the wrong muscles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretching	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stretching	aux
3	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 muscles	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 muscles	amod
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present · progressive	She	the wrong muscles					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The growth areas in her bones have closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 areas	det
2	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 areas	compound
3	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 closed	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bones	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bones	nmod:poss
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 areas	nmod
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 closed	aux
8	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	present · perfect · passive		the growth areas in her bones					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Adults grow only when they sleep less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 sleep	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nsubj
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	advcl
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Adults						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	Adults = adult					less property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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