--- title: Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slowe… — Growing up: ages of people and pets, a… · tree and pragmatics description: Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slower than a horse's? Test 9 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m… Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slower than a horse's? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** expect, beat · **To what, where:** heart This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:t9:1 # text = Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slower than a horse's? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 shrew shrew NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expect** | would | | a tiny shrew's heart | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beat** | gerund | a tiny shrew's heart *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Slower: small animals' hearts beat slower ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:t9:o1:1 # text = Slower: small animals' hearts beat slower 1 Slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 slower slow ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | small animals's Slower hearts | | | | | slow *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Faster: small animals' hearts usually beat faster ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:t9:o2:1 # text = Faster: small animals' hearts usually beat faster 1 Faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | small animals's Faster hearts | | | | | fast, usually *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} The same: all hearts beat at one speed ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:t9:o3:1 # text = The same: all hearts beat at one speed 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | the same | | | one speed | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Slower: small hearts need less blood ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:t9:o4:1 # text = Slower: small hearts need less blood 1 Slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Slower small hearts | less blood | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme | **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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