Test 2 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles
★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. In which year will she turn 80?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: ★, tell, bear, turn · To what, where: Gran, me, ★, 1950, 80 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950.
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 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | obj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 born | aux:pass |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1950 | case |
| 17 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 born | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | Gran | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | me | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | ★ | 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: In which year will she turn 80?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 turn | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | ★ | 80 | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 80=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2080
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2080 | 2080 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2050
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2050 | 2050 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
2030
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2030 | 2030 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1030
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1030 | 1030 | 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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