--- title: A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per a… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, a… · tree and pragmatics description: A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres. Exam question 3 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Growing up: ages of people and pets, a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m… A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** child, you · **What happens:** grow, determine, require, attain · **To what, where:** rate, number, years, 160 centimetres This is exam question 3 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:1 # text = A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 140 140 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 per per ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 annum annum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a child of 140 centimetres | | | a rate of five centimetres per annum | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location | 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. *Sentence 2:* Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:2 # text = Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 attain attain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 160 160 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of years | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **require** | participle | | years *not said here* | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 3 | **attain** | to-infinitive | | 160 centimetres | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:o1:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:o2:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:o3:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e3:o4:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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