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Test 2 · ★★★ · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

Try writing one hundred and five with no zero sign. What problem do you hit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: try, write, hit · To what, where: one hundred

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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: Try writing one hundred and five with no zero sign.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Try	xcomp
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 writing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 five	cc
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sign	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sign	det
9	zero	zero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	compound
10	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	write not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	one hundred				with no zero sign	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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: What problem do you hit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hit	obj
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present · do-support	you						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Co-Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It becomes a million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 million	det
4	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 becomes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	a million					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient million=Result

Option 2

Nothing, zero is never needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 zero	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	zero	zero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 needed	aux:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 needed	advmod
6	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		Nothing zero					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You cannot tell it apart from fifteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	obj
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 fifteen	case
8	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	You		it	fifteen		apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

It turns into a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 letter	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a letter			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into letter=Trajectory

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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