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Test 12 · Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole

★★★ Mum says the bag «weighs a ton», Ava says «it's like a hundred bricks», and the bathroom scales say 5 kg. What does the bag really weigh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Ava, ton, bathroom scales · What happens: say, weigh, be · To what, where: bag, ton, 5 kg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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: ★★★ Mum says the bag «weighs a ton», Ava says «it's like a hundred bricks», and the bathroom scales say 5 kg.

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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bag	det
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ton	det
11	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
14	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 bricks	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bricks	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bricks	cop
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 bricks	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bricks	nummod
22	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 says	ccomp
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 bricks	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 scales	det
27	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scales	compound
28	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 say	nsubj
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
30	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 kg	nummod
31	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 say	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★	the bag					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bag=Topic
2	weigh in a quote	present	★ not said here	a ton					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value
3	say speech: assert	present	Ava						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	ton					like hundred bricks	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	the bathroom scales	5 kg					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kg=Topic

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 does the bag really weigh?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 weigh	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weigh	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bag	det
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 weigh	advmod
6	weigh	weigh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 weigh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present · do-support							vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value

The options

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

5 kg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kg	nummod
2	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

100 bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 bricks	nummod
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

More than Mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 Mum	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

1000 kg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 kg	nummod
2	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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