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title: Why does a human child need care from adults for so long? — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a human child need care from adults for so long? Test 7 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 7 · The human life cycle and growing up

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Why does a human child need care from adults for so long?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, need · **To what, where:** human child, care

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t7:1
# text = Why does a human child need care from adults for so long?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a human child |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present |  | care |  |  |  | from adults; long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |

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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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Humans are born able to look after themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t7:o1:1
# text = Humans are born able to look after themselves
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | Humans |  |  |  | able *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after Humans *= human* |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Humans take many years to grow and learn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t7:o2:1
# text = Humans take many years to grow and learn
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Humans |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Humans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | Humans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Children cannot learn anything new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t7:o3:1
# text = Children cannot learn anything new
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | can | Children | anything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Adults need children to feed them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t7:o4:1
# text = Adults need children to feed them
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Adults | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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