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Test 4 · The human life cycle and growing up

A girl has her grandmother's curly hair. How is this possible?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, this · What happens: have, be · To what, where: curly hair

This is test 4 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 girl has her grandmother's curly hair.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 grandmother	case
7	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a girl	girl's grandmother's curly hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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: How is this possible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 possible	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					possible property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She chose curly hair as a baby

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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 baby	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	She	curly hair				as a baby	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2

Her hair copied her grandmother's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	nsubj
3	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 grandmother	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	Her hair	hair's grandmother					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme

Option 3

She ate the same food as her grandmother

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 grandmother	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandmother	nmod:poss
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	the same food				as her grandmother	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Genes passed down through her parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj:pass
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 parents	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass down	participle · passive		Genes				through her parents	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through parent=Destination

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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