Test 7 · The human life cycle and growing up

Why does a human child need care from adults for so long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, need · To what, where: human child, care

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 adults	case
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 so	case
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 need	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a human child					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality
2	need	present		care				from adults; long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

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

Humans are born able to look after themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Humans				able property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive					after Humans = human		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Humans take many years to grow and learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 learn	cc
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	take	present	Humans	year	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	to-infinitive	Humans not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	learn	infinitive	Humans not said here		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Children cannot learn anything new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 learn	obj
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Children	anything					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 4

Adults need children to feed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Adults	children					tree rules
2	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	children not said here	children = child					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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