Test 6 · ★★ · Not unhappy and not half: litotes
★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. Who is «not a million miles away»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: answer · What happens: be · To what, where: 85
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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 guessing game the answer is 85.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 4 | guessing | guessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 game | compound |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 85 | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 85 | cop |
| 9 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 game | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer | 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: Who is «not a million miles away»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 away | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 away | cop |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 million | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 million | det |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 miles | nummod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 away | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | million miles obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Leo, who guessed 1,000,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 guessed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Leo | 1,000,000 | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1,000,000=Theme |
Option 2
Zoe, who guessed 300
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 guessed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Zoe | 300 | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ben, who guessed 82
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 82 | 82 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 guessed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Ben | 82 | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 82=Theme |
Option 4
Mia, who guessed 30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 guessed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Mia | 30 | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Theme |
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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