Test 7 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles

★★★ In which sentence is «starving» NOT hyperbole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: starve · To what, where: hyperbole

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starving	nsubj
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 sentence	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 starving	aux
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 starving	punct
9	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 starving	punct
11	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hyperbole	advmod
12	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starving	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	present · progressive	★ ★ ★ in which sentence	hyperbole					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«In the famine, people were starving for weeks»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 starving	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 famine	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 famine	det
4	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starving	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 famine	punct
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 starving	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 starving	aux
8	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 weeks	case
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 starving	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	past · progressive	people			the famine	week		tree rules

Option 2

«Starving! I haven't eaten anything since morning break»

Sentence 1: «Starving!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Starving	punct
2	Starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	gerund							tree rules

Sentence 2: I haven't eaten anything since morning break»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 eaten	obj
6	since	since	ADP	_	8 break	case
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	compound
8	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · perfect	I	anything			since morning break		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Option 3

«Mum, I'm starving, when's tea?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 starving	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starving	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mum	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 starving	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 starving	aux
6	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 when	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 tea	mark
9	's	's	PART	_	8 when	case
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starving	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 starving	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	present · progressive	I					Mum vocative	tree rules

Option 4

«I'm starving, lunch was ages ago»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 starving	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	aux
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starving	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ages	cop
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 starving	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	present · progressive	I	lunch				ago property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past		ages					tree rules

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