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Test 5 · Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole

«are we there yet it's been a bajillion hours» — «It's been forty minutes, mate.» Your little sister asks how long you've driven. What do you tell her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, it, little sister, you · What happens: be, ask, drive, tell · To what, where: bajillion hours, forty minutes, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: «are we there yet it's been a bajillion hours» — «It's been forty minutes, mate.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 there	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 hours	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hours	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hours	cop
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hours	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hours	det
10	bajillion	bajillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hours	compound
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	obl:unmarked
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hours	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 minutes	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 minutes	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 minutes	cop
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 minutes	cop
18	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 minutes	nummod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mate	punct
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 minutes	vocative
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we					there property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	a bajillion hours			yet		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	It	forty minutes				mate vocative	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: Your little sister asks how long you've driven.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 driven	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 driven	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 driven	aux
9	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 asks	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Your little sister						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	present · perfect	you					long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What do you tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you		sister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A bajillion hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hours	det
2	bajillion	bajillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hours	compound
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Forty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 minutes	amod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Forever and ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forever	forever	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ever	cc
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Forever	conj

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

Option 4

Nobody can know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 know	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	can	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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