Test 11 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles
★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes. About how long is the real wait?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, queue · What happens: confirm, serve, be · To what, where: hour lah, each, real wait
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes.
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 | 6 confirm | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 confirm | punct |
| 5 | Wah | Wah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 confirm | nsubj |
| 6 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hour | nummod |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lah | compound |
| 9 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confirm | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 lah | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 queue | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 queue | det |
| 13 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confirm | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 queue | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 served | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 served | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 queue | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 minutes | case |
| 21 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 minutes | nummod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 served | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 confirm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm in a quote | infinitive | ★ ★ ★ | hour lah | about a queue of 10 people | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lah=Topic | |||
| 2 | serve | participle · passive | a queue of 10 people not said here | each | minute | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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: About how long is the real wait?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wait | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wait | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wait | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wait | amod |
| 7 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real wait | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About one hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hour | nummod |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About two hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 20 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20 | advmod |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 10 minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10 | advmod |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | 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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