Test 5 · The human life cycle and growing up
A 7-year-old loses a front tooth. What happens next?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: year old · What happens: lose, happen · To what, where: front tooth
This is test 5 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 7-year-old loses a front tooth.
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 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loses | nsubj |
| 7 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tooth | det |
| 9 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tooth | amod |
| 10 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loses | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | a year old | a front tooth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |
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: What happens next?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 2 happens | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A permanent tooth grows in its place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 2 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tooth | amod |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a permanent tooth | tooth's place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
Option 2
The same baby tooth grows back again later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tooth | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tooth | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tooth | compound |
| 4 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 grows | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 grows | advmod |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 grows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow back | present | the same baby tooth | again | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
No tooth will ever grow in that gap again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tooth | det |
| 2 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gap | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 gap | det |
| 8 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | no tooth | that gap | ever; again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gap=Location |
Option 4
A third set of teeth begins to grow in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 set | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 set | amod |
| 3 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 teeth | case |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nmod |
| 6 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begins | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | a third set of teeth | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | a third set of teeth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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