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Exam question 1 · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles

It is given that a grandmother «has told me a thousand times» that she was born in 1950. Determine her age in the year 2000.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, tell, bear, determine · To what, where: It, grandmother, me, she, 1950, age · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 grandmother «has told me a thousand times» that she was born in 1950.

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	_	9 told	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grandmother	det
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	obl:unmarked
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 times	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 born	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 born	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 born	aux:pass
18	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 1950	case
20	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 born	obl
21	.	.	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	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a grandmother	me		time		tree rules
3	bear	past · passive		she		1950			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: Determine her age in the year 2000.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 age	nmod:poss
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
7	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 year	flat
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	grandmother's age			year		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	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 2

Nine hundred and fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One thousand and fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	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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