Test 6 · ★★ · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

«it's a one in a million clover so if I look at a million I'll find one, easy» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, look, find · To what, where: one, million clover

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 clover	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clover	det
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 clover	nummod
9	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	19 find	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 find	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 million	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 million	det
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 look	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 clover	acl:relcl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 find	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 easy	punct
22	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	parataxis
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 easy	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wrong	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wrong	cop
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 easy	conj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a one	a million clover		tree rules
2	look a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I			at a million	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at million=Theme
3	find in a quote	future	I	one			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	is	present				wrong property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Four-leaf clovers do not exist at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leaf	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Four	punct
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clovers	compound
4	clovers	clover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 exist	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 exist	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 exist	advmod
7	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 exist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	present · do-support	leaf clovers			all			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

You need to look at two million to find one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 million	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 look	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	advcl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	You			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here		at two million	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at million=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	You not said here	one		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

Option 3

Nothing, one in a million is the exact chance that scientists measured

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chance	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 chance	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 million	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 million	det
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chance	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chance	det
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chance	amod
10	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 measured	obj
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 measured	nsubj
13	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chance	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one in a million	the exact chance					tree rules
2	measure	past	scientists	the exact chance					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme that=Value

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«One in a million» just meant «rare»; the real chance is much better

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 meant	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 million	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 million	det
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	nmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 rare	punct
10	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meant	xcomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 rare	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chance	det
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chance	amod
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 better	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 better	advmod
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 meant	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past		One in a million				rare property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the real chance					good property	tree rules

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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