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title: «human babies are just useless lol» What is the honest science? — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «human babies are just useless lol» What is the honest science? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

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«human babies are just useless lol» What is the honest science?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** human babies · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** honest science

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/49-babies/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:t12:1
# text = «human babies are just useless lol» What is the honest science?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | human babies |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the honest science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Human babies are among the most helpless and need parents for years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:t12:o1:1
# text = Human babies are among the most helpless and need parents for years
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Human babies |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | Human babies *not said here* | parents |  |  | year |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Human babies grow up faster than any other animal on the whole planet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:t12:o2:1
# text = Human babies grow up faster than any other animal on the whole planet
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | Human babies |  |  | the whole planet |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on planet=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Human babies need no care at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:t12:o3:1
# text = Human babies need no care at all
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Human babies | no care |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Human babies can walk within an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:49-babies:t12:o4:1
# text = Human babies can walk within an hour
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | can | Human babies |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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