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title: A 7-year-old loses a front tooth. What happens next? — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: A 7-year-old loses a front tooth. What happens next? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · The human life cycle and growing up

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A 7-year-old loses a front tooth. What happens next?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** year old · **What happens:** lose, happen · **To what, where:** front tooth

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A 7-year-old loses a front tooth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:1
# text = A 7-year-old loses a front tooth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | a year old | a front tooth |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happens next?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:2
# text = What happens next?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A permanent tooth grows in its place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:o1:1
# text = A permanent tooth grows in its place
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a permanent tooth |  |  | tooth's place |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The same baby tooth grows back again later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:o2:1
# text = The same baby tooth grows back again later
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow back** | present | the same baby tooth |  |  |  | again | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No tooth will ever grow in that gap again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:o3:1
# text = No tooth will ever grow in that gap again
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | future | no tooth |  |  | that gap | ever; again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gap=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A third set of teeth begins to grow in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t5:o4:1
# text = A third set of teeth begins to grow in
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | a third set of teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a third set of teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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