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Test 3 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles

★★★ Jamal: «like a hundred keepy-uppies, well, 23». Next day: «I smashed it, like a million, no, 31». By how many did he beat his record?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Jamal · What happens: smash, beat, record · To what, where: it, record

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Jamal: «like a hundred keepy-uppies, well, 23».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Jamal	case
4	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 uppies	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 uppies	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 uppies	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hundred	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 uppies	nummod
10	keepy	keepy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uppies	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 keepy	punct
12	uppies	uppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ★	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 23	punct
14	well	well	INTJ	_	16 23	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
16	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 uppies	appos
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 23	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct

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

Sentence 2: Next day: «I smashed it, like a million, no, 31».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smashed	obl:unmarked
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 smashed	nsubj
6	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smashed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 million	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 million	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 million	det
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 smashed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 31	punct
13	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 31	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 31	punct
15	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 smashed	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 31	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash in a quote	past	I	it			day	like a million; 31 obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Sentence 3: By how many did he beat his record?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 many	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beat	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 record	nmod:poss
8	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past · do-support	Jamal	Jamal's record				by many	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location record=Theme
2	record		Jamal						nom record «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

54

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

69

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	69	69	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

999,977

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	999,977	999,977	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	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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