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title: Which is true? — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true? Test 2 of lesson 92 «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · The human life cycle and growing up

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Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 of lesson 92 «The human life cycle and growing up» 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/92-human-life-cycle/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t2:1
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Adults keep growing taller every year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t2:o1:1
# text = Adults keep growing taller every year
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Adults |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everyone starts puberty at exactly 13

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t2:o2:1
# text = Everyone starts puberty at exactly 13
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	puberty	puberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Everyone | puberty |  | 13 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puberty=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A baby grows faster in its first year than an adult ever does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t2:o3:1
# text = A baby grows faster in its first year than an adult ever does
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a baby |  |  |  | year | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | a adult |  |  |  | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Newborns have fewer bones than adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t2:o4:1
# text = Newborns have fewer bones than adults
1	Newborns	newborn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Newborns | fewer bones |  |  |  | than adults | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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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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