Test 3 · Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and o…
Jayden: "Megacities? Like, mega-huge, skibidi huge?" What's the real meaning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real meaning · What happens: be
This is test 3 of lesson 74 «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» of the history 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: Jayden: "Megacities?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Megacities | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Megacities | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Megacities | punct |
| 4 | Megacities | megacity | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Megacities | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Like, mega-huge, skibidi huge?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 mega | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | mega | megapixel | X | _ | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mega | punct |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mega | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mega | punct |
| 7 | skibidi | skibidi | X | _ | 3 mega | goeswith |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mega | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mega | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mega | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What's the real meaning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meaning | amod |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real meaning | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cities with more than 100 people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 5 100 | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 people | nummod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cities | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Cities made of one single giant building
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cities | acl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 building | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 building | nummod |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 building | amod |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 building | amod |
| 7 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Cities not said here | of one single giant building | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cities of more than 10 million people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 million | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 million | compound |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cities | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cities guarded by giant robots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cities | acl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 robots | case |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 robots | amod |
| 5 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 guarded | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | participle | Cities not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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