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Test 11 · My dad could lift a car: playground boasting

★★★ Leo says he's read every one of the library's 4,000 books. If he read one book every day, about how many years would 4,000 books take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, 4,000 books · What happens: say, read, take · To what, where: ★, one book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 48 «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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: ★★★ Leo says he's read every one of the library's 4,000 books.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	list
4	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux:pass
8	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 says	ccomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 books	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 library	det
13	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 books	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 library	case
15	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 books	nummod
16	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	present · passive		★					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient one=Topic

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: If he read one book every day, about how many years would 4,000 books take?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 read	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 take	advcl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 book	nummod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	obl:unmarked
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
14	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 books	nummod
15	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	nsubj
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read a condition, not said to happen	past	★	one book			day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	take	would	4,000 books				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	nummod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

About forty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 forty	advmod
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About eleven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 eleven	advmod
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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