Test 1 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles
★★★ «Mum's said a hundred times her sister is 4 years older than her. Mum is 38. How old is her sister?»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Mum · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Mum, 38, old sister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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: ★★★ «Mum's said a hundred times her sister is 4 years older than her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 older | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ★ | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 older | cop |
| 14 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 older | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 older | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 older | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | Mum | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | ★ ★ ★ | year | than Mum; old 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.
Sentence 2: Mum is 38.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 38 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 38 | cop |
| 3 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 38 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mum | 38 | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How old is her sister?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 old | advmod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mum's old sister | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
138
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
42
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
104
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
34
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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