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Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★

★★★ Ming groans «I've told you a million times, there's like a million tones!» How many are there really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, I, many · What happens: groan, tell, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the Chinese street 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.

The question

Sentence 1: ★★★ Ming groans «I've told you a million times, there's like a million tones!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 groans	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 groans	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 million	det
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 's	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 's	expl
16	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 groans	parataxis
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 tones	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 million	det
19	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 tones	nummod
20	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 's	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 's	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 groans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groan	present	★						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I		you		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	be in a quote	present				there		like million tones	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: How many are there really?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 there	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many					there property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two: one up and one down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	nummod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 one	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 one	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 one	advmod

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

Option 2

A million, just like he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 million	det
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a million						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Eight, like the lucky number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 number	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 number	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eight	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four, plus the light tone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tone	punct
3	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	6 tone	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tone	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tone	compound
6	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	appos

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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