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Exam question 1 · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

It is given that Tom «has told his brother a hundred times» to tidy, and that the brother tidies three shelves each bearing four books. Determine the aggregate number of books tidied.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, brother, you · What happens: give, tell, tidy, determine · To what, where: It, brother, three shelves, aggregate number, books · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 46 «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that Tom «has told his brother a hundred times» to tidy, and that the brother tidies three shelves each bearing four books.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 given	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl:unmarked
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 times	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tidy	mark
16	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tidies	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tidies	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 tidies	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brother	det
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tidies	nsubj
22	tidies	tidy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shelves	nummod
24	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tidies	obj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 bearing	det
26	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tidies	obj
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 books	nummod
28	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bearing	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	Tom		Tom's brother		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tidy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tom not said here						tree rules
4	tidy	present	the brother	three shelves					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: Determine the aggregate number of books tidied.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 books	case
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	tidied	tidy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 books	acl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of books					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	tidy	participle		books not said here					tree rules

The options

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

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

One thousand two hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

One hundred and seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seven	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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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