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Test 8 · Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole

«how old is that telly then, older than the hills?» What is the best way to find its real age?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best way · What happens: be, find · To what, where: old telly, real age

This is test 8 of lesson 45 «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more 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: «how old is that telly then, older than the hills?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 telly	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 telly	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telly	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 telly	det
6	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 telly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 older	punct
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 telly	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 older	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 telly	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 telly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		that old telly			then		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: What is the best way to find its real age?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 age	nmod:poss
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 age	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best way						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the best way not said here	way's real age					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic

The options

Option 1

Guess, because nobody can ever know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 know	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Guess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	know	can	nobody				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Find out how old the hills behind the house are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Find	compound:prt
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Find	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hills	det
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	nsubj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hills	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	imperative	you not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the hills behind the house					old property	tree rules

Option 3

Multiply the age of Grandad by two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Multiply	multiply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 age	det
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Multiply	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Grandad	case
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 age	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 two	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Multiply	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	multiply	imperative	you not said here	the age of Grandad				by two	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent age=Theme by two=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Look for a date on the back or ask when he bought it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 date	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 date	det
4	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 bought	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bought	nsubj
12	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			the back		for a date	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for date=Theme on back=Location
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	buy	past	he	back					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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