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Exam question 2 · My dad could lift a car: playground boasting

A pupil asserts that she possesses «a MILLION Robux, no cap, well, 500». Ascertain the quantity in her possession.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: assert, possess, ascertain · To what, where: MILLION Robux, quantity, possession

This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: A pupil asserts that she possesses «a MILLION Robux, no cap, well, 500».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asserts	nsubj
3	asserts	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 possesses	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 possesses	nsubj
6	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asserts	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 Robux	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 MILLION	det
9	MILLION	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Robux	nummod
10	Robux	Robux	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 possesses	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Robux	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 500	punct
15	well	well	INTJ	_	17 500	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 well	punct
17	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Robux	appos
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 500	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asserts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assert	present	a pupil						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	possess	present	pupil	MILLION Robux					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot robux=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: Ascertain the quantity in her possession.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 quantity	det
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 possession	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 possession	nmod:poss
6	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the quantity		pupil's possession			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic
2	possess		pupil						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 million	compound
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

It cannot be ascertained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ascertained	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ascertained	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ascertained	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ascertained	aux:pass
5	ascertained	ascertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ascertain	can · passive		It					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

One million five hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 million	compound
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Five hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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