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Exam question 4 · Not unhappy and not half: litotes

It is given that a pupil guessed 80 and that the true number was 85. Select the response consistent with the expression «You're not a million miles away».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pupil, true number, you · What happens: give, guess, be, select, not be · To what, where: It, 80, 85, response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 50 «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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: It is given that a pupil guessed 80 and that the true number was 85.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 guessed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guessed	nsubj
7	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 guessed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 85	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 85	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 number	det
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 number	amod
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 85	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 85	cop
15	85	85	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 guessed	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	guess	past	a pupil	80					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 80=Theme
3	is a	past	the true number	85					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.

Sentence 2: Select the response consistent with the expression «You're not a million miles away».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 expression	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 expression	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 away	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 away	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 away	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 away	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 million	det
13	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 miles	nummod
14	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 away	obl:unmarked
15	away	away	ADV	_	7 expression	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 away	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	You					million miles obl:unmarked; away property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The guess was close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guess	det
2	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the guess					close property	tree rules

Option 2

The guess was distant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guess	det
2	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 distant	cop
4	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the guess					distant property	tree rules

Option 3

The guess exceeded a million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guess	det
2	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exceeded	nsubj
3	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 million	det
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 exceeded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	past	the guess	a million					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot million=Theme

Option 4

The guess was exact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guess	det
2	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exact	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 exact	cop
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the guess					exact 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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