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★★★ English «a million times», Spanish «mil veces» (a thousand), Ukrainian «сто разів» (a hundred). A mum told you off 12 real times. Which saying gives the real number?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Ukrainian, mum · What happens: ★, разів, tell off, say, give · To what, where: English, hundred, you, real number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ English «a million times», Spanish «mil veces» (a thousand), Ukrainian «сто разів» (a hundred).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 times	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 million	det
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 English	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 times	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Spanish	punct
11	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 English	conj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 veces	punct
13	mil	mil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 veces	compound
14	veces	vece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 English	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 veces	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 thousand	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thousand	det
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 veces	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 thousand	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 разів	punct
21	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 разів	nsubj
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 разів	punct
23	сто	сто	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 разів	compound
24	разів	разів	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 English	appos
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 разів	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 hundred	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hundred	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 разів	nmod
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 hundred	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★	English and Spanish and mil veces					tree rules
2	разів in a quote		Ukrainian	a hundred					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: A mum told you off 12 real times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 told	compound:prt
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	a mum		you		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Sentence 3: Which saying gives the real number?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 saying	nsubj
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give	present		the real number					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Spanish one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The English one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Ukrainian one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

None of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod

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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