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Test 8 · ★★ · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

★★ In a problem: «Dad's had a thousand cups of tea today, ugh. He made 4 cups for each of 3 guests.» How many cups did he make for guests?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many cups · What happens: have, make · To what, where: thousand cups, 4 cups

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: ★★ In a problem: «Dad's had a thousand cups of tea today, ugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 problem	nsubj
3	In	in	ADP	_	5 problem	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Dad	case
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 problem	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 cups	nummod
13	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 tea	case
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cups	nmod
16	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ugh	punct
18	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	10 had	discourse
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	participle		thousand cups of tea			today		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

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: He made 4 cups for each of 3 guests.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 cups	nummod
4	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cups	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 guests	case
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 guests	nummod
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	★	4 cups				for each	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cup=Material for each=Beneficiary

Sentence 3: How many cups did he make for guests?

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 cups	amod
3	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 guests	case
8	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	many cups					for guests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for guest=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

1012

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1012	1012	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

1000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

7

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

12

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	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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