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description: What would happen if a newborn human had to walk away from lions like a baby giraffe? Test 4 of lesson 51 «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 4 · Life begins: being born and growing up

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What would happen if a newborn human had to walk away from lions like a baby giraffe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** newborn human · **What happens:** happen, have, walk away

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This is test 4 of lesson 51 «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a newborn human had to walk away from lions like a baby giraffe?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	human	human	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a newborn human |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk away** | to-infinitive | a newborn human *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from lions like a baby giraffe; away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from lion=Source |

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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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It would learn to walk in five minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:t4:o1:1
# text = It would learn to walk in five minutes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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It could not; human babies need adults to carry and protect them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:t4:o2:1
# text = It could not; human babies need adults to carry and protect them
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | could | It | adults |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **protect** | infinitive | adults *not said here* | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would hide in a seed until danger passed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:t4:o3:1
# text = It would hide in a seed until danger passed
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | would | It |  |  | a seed | until danger |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seed=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would run faster than the giraffe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:t4:o4:1
# text = It would run faster than the giraffe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | would | It |  |  |  |  | than the giraffe; fast *property* | 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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