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title: What would happen if you measured an astronaut just back from months… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, f… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you measured an astronaut just back from months in space? Test 4 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 each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 4 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

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What would happen if you measured an astronaut just back from months in space?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, measure · **To what, where:** astronaut

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t4:1
# text = What would happen if you measured an astronaut just back from months in space?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a astronaut |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme astronaut=Value |

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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 {#o1}

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They would be much shorter for the rest of their life, as space squashes bones

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t4:o1:1
# text = They would be much shorter for the rest of their life, as space squashes bones
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	squashes	squash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | They |  |  |  |  | for the rest of their life; short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **squash** | present | space | bones |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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

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They would be a few centimetres taller for a while, then shrink back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t4:o2:1
# text = They would be a few centimetres taller for a while, then shrink back
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | They |  |  |  | while | a few centimetres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shrink back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They would be exactly the same height as before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t4:o3:1
# text = They would be exactly the same height as before
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | They | the same height |  |  |  | before, exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would keep growing taller on Earth for years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:71-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up:t4:o4:1
# text = They would keep growing taller on Earth for years
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  | Earth | year | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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