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description: A baby weighed 3 kilograms at birth. About what might it weigh at one year? Test 8 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 8 · The human life cycle and growing up

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A baby weighed 3 kilograms at birth. About what might it weigh at one year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** weigh · **To what, where:** 3 kilograms, birth

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A baby weighed 3 kilograms at birth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:1
# text = A baby weighed 3 kilograms at birth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | past | a baby | 3 kilograms |  | birth |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme at birth=Value |

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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:* About what might it weigh at one year?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:2
# text = About what might it weigh at one year?
1	About	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | might | baby |  |  |  | year |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 1 kilogram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:o1:1
# text = About 1 kilogram
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 30 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:o2:1
# text = About 30 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 3 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:o3:1
# text = About 3 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About 9 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:92-human-life-cycle:t8:o4:1
# text = About 9 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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