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Test 10 · ★★ · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

★★★ Mr Okafor moans about «a hundred things to do». His board shows 6 jobs; he finishes half before lunch and 1 after. How many jobs are left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, hundred things, board · What happens: moan, do, show, finish, leave · To what, where: 6 jobs, many jobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Mr Okafor moans about «a hundred things to do».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 moans	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	4 Mr	punct
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
5	Okafor	Okafor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mr	flat
6	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 things	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 things	nummod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 moans	ccomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	★ and Mr						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	hundred things						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: His board shows 6 jobs; he finishes half before lunch and 1 after.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 board	nmod:poss
2	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 jobs	nummod
5	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 finishes	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finishes	nsubj
8	finishes	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	parataxis
9	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 finishes	advmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 lunch	case
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finishes	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 1	cc
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 lunch	nmod
14	after	after	ADV	_	13 1	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Mr's board	6 jobs					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent job=Recipient
2	finish	present	board				before lunch 1	half property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Sentence 3: How many jobs are left?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jobs	amod
3	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		many jobs					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

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

2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

99

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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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