Exam question 1 · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★

Determine which reading of the utterance «I have told you a million times» is accurate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I, reading · What happens: determine, tell, be, read · To what, where: utterance, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 reading	det
3	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 accurate	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 utterance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 utterance	det
6	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	nmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 utterance	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 million	det
13	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 accurate	cop
17	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Determine	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I	the utterance not said here	you	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	which reading of the utterance				accurate property	tree rules
4	read			the utterance				nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

An understatement of a larger figure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 understatement	det
2	understatement	understatement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 figure	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 figure	det
5	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 figure	amod
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understatement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understate			a larger figure					nom understatement «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An exaggeration meaning «many times», not a count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 exaggeration	det
2	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 exaggeration	acl
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 times	punct
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meaning	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 times	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 count	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 count	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 count	det
11	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exaggeration	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	gerund	a exaggeration and a count not said here				time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A precise count of one million instances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 count	det
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 count	amod
3	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 instances	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 million	compound
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 instances	nummod
7	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nmod

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

Option 4

A count of one thousand instances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 count	det
2	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 instances	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 instances	nummod
6	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	nmod

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

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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