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title: In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnig… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, f… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight. What does real growing look like? Test 2 of lesson 71 «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

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In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight. What does real growing look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** drink, grow, be · **To what, where:** potion, cartoon

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This is test 2 of lesson 71 «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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/71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:1
# text = In a cartoon, a boy drinks a potion and grows a metre taller overnight.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
15	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | a boy | a potion |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does real growing look like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:2
# text = What does real growing look like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A whole metre every year until you turn ten, then it stops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:o1:1
# text = A whole metre every year until you turn ten, then it stops
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | you | ten |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ten=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | a whole metre  every year |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A few centimetres a year, added slowly at the growth plates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:o2:1
# text = A few centimetres a year, added slowly at the growth plates
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | a few centimetres  a year |  |  | the growth plates |  | slowly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Growing only in summer, never in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:o3:1
# text = Growing only in summer, never in winter
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | summer; winter |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Growing only on birthdays, all at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t2:o4:1
# text = Growing only on birthdays, all at once
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  | birthdays |  | all *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location |

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