Test 3 · Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole

What would happen if Ava tried to lift a real ton?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: happen, try, lift · To what, where: real ton

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tried	mark
5	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lift	mark
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ton	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ton	amod
11	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lift	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Ava		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lift not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ava not said here	a real ton	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She couldn't: a ton weighs as much as a small car

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 could	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 could	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 weighs	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ton	det
6	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weighs	nsubj
7	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 could	conj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weighs	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 car	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 car	amod
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	a ton	much				as a small car	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She could lift it easily, it's about five kilos

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	3 lift	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	obj
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 lift	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kilos	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kilos	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kilos	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 five	advmod
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 kilos	nummod
11	kilos	kilo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	could	She	it				easily property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	it	five kilos					tree rules

Option 3

She could lift it if Gran helped her a bit

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	3 lift	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 helped	mark
6	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 helped	nsubj
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helped	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	could	She	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	help a condition, not said to happen	past	Gran		her = she			a bit obl:unmarked	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4

It would feel lighter than her school bag

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	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 bag	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bag	nmod:poss
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bag	compound
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	It					light property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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