Test 1 · Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate a…

«so Ukrainian mums only say a hundred times, English mums say a million, so English mums are way crosser lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukrainian mums, English mums · What happens: say, be · To what, where: million, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 53 «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 Ukrainian	advmod
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mums	amod
4	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mums	compound
12	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 million	det
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 say	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
18	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mums	amod
19	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 way	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	cop
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
22	crosser	cross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 way	amod
23	lol	lol	INTJ	_	27 right	discourse
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 lol	punct
25	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 right	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 right	cop
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Ukrainian mums		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	English mums	a million			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent million=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	English mums	way			tree rules
4	is	present				right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, the numbers are different but the meaning is the same: lots, and cross

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 different	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 numbers	det
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 different	cop
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 same	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meaning	det
9	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 same	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 same	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 different	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 lots	punct
14	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cross	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cross	cc
17	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the numbers					different property	tree rules
2	is	present	the meaning					same property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, Spanish mums are in the middle at a thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 middle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mums	amod
4	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 middle	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 middle	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 thousand	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thousand	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Spanish mums			the middle		at a thousand	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, Ukrainian mums are much crosser, because a hundred is a real, countable number

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 crosser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crosser	punct
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mums	amod
4	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crosser	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crosser	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 crosser	advmod
7	crosser	cross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 number	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hundred	punct
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 hundred	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 number	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 number	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 number	det
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 number	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
16	countable	countable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 number	amod
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ukrainian mums					cross property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a hundred	a crosser real countable number					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, a million is bigger, so English mums are much crosser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bigger	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 million	det
4	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bigger	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crosser	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 crosser	advmod
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mums	amod
10	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crosser	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crosser	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 crosser	advmod
13	crosser	cross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a million					big property	tree rules
2	is	present	English mums					cross property	tree rules

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