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Test 11 · Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole

★★★ Kofi says «my nan sent me a gazillion texts lol». She sent 3 in the morning, 4 at lunch and twice as many as at lunch in the afternoon. How many texts in all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, nan, gazillion · What happens: say, send, text · To what, where: ★, 3, lunch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 44 «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language 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: ★★★ Kofi says «my nan sent me a gazillion texts lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
4	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nan	nmod:poss
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gazillion	det
12	gazillion	gazillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 texts	nsubj
13	texts	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	ccomp
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 texts	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send in a quote	past	my nan	★					tree rules
3	text in a quote	present	a gazillion						tree rules

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: She sent 3 in the morning, 4 at lunch and twice as many as at lunch in the afternoon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 sent	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 4	punct
8	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 sent	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 lunch	case
10	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 many	cc
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 many	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sent	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 lunch	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 lunch	case
17	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 many	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 afternoon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 afternoon	det
20	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lunch	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	gazillion	3		lunch	morning	4 obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Theme

Sentence 3: How many texts in all?

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	3 texts	amod
3	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 texts	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 texts	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

14

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

A gazillion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gazillion	det
2	gazillion	gazillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

11

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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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