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Test 9 · ★★ · Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths

★★★ «We walked like a million miles!» The app says the class walked 3.2 km there and the same back. How far did they walk in all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, app, class, miles · What happens: walk, say · To what, where: 3.2 km, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: ★★★ «We walked like a million miles!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 miles	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 million	det
9	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 miles	nummod
10	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walked	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	★					like million miles	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: The app says the class walked 3.2 km there and the same back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	3.2	3.2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 km	nummod
8	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 walked	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 back	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 back	amod
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the app						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	past	the class	3.2 km		there			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Trajectory

Sentence 3: How far did they walk in all?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 walk	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	miles = mile			all		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in all=Trajectory

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A million miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 million	det
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

2 million miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 million	compound
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 miles	nummod
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

3.2 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3.2	3.2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 km	nummod
2	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

6.4 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6.4	6.4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 km	nummod
2	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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