Test 1 · ★★ · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

«miss it says a hundred times, so is it 100 × 3 × 4??» What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it · What happens: miss, say, be · To what, where: 100 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 46 «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» 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: «miss it says a hundred times, so is it 100 × 3 × 4??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct
2	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 miss	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ×	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 100	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 100	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 100	nsubj
12	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 ×	nummod
13	×	×	SYM	Number=Sing	2 miss	parataxis
14	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 ×	nummod
15	×	×	SYM	Number=Sing	13 ×	conj
16	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 ×	flat
17	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	miss in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	it		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	it	100		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 do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, the hundred is how often he nagged; only 3 and 4 are books

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hundred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 books	nummod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nagged	cop
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 often	advmod
7	often	often	ADV	_	9 nagged	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nagged	nsubj
9	nagged	nag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hundred	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 3	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 3	advmod
12	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 4	cc
14	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 3	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 books	cop
16	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					nag, often property	tree rules
2	is a	present		hundred books					tree rules

Option 2

No, it should be 100 + 3 + 4 = 107 books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 100	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 100	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 100	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 100	cop
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 books	nummod
7	+	+	SYM	_	8 3	cc
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 100	conj
9	+	+	SYM	_	10 4	cc
10	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 100	conj
11	=	=	SYM	_	12 107	case
12	107	107	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 books	nummod
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	it	100					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every number in a problem must be used somewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 problem	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 problem	det
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	nmod
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 used	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	aux:pass
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 used	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	must · passive		every number in a problem				somewhere property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, because the biggest number always goes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 goes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 goes	advmod
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the biggest number					always, first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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