Test 10 · Taxes and the government's budget
Leo's mate says, "A trillion is just a million with extra zeros, like 10 million." What is 1 trillion?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, be · To what, where: trillion million, 1 trillion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money 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: Leo's mate says, "A trillion is just a million with extra zeros, like 10 million."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Leo | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 million | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 million | punct |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 million | det |
| 8 | trillion | trillion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 million | nummod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 million | cop |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 million | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 million | det |
| 12 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 says | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 zeros | case |
| 14 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 zeros | amod |
| 15 | zeros | zero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 million | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 million | case |
| 18 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 million | compound |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 says | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Leo's mate | with extra zeros | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with zero=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a trillion million | 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: What is 1 trillion?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 trillion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trillion | cop |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 trillion | compound |
| 4 | trillion | trillion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 trillion | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 1 trillion | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1,000 million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
1,000 billion, which is 1,000,000 million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 billion | compound |
| 2 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 million | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 million | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 million | cop |
| 6 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 million | compound |
| 7 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 billion | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 1,000,000 million | tree rules |
Option 3
10 million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 million | compound |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
100 billion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 billion | compound |
| 2 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word 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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