Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★

"nan's told me a MILLION times cheese gives u nightmares" What is really going on in this line?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell, give u, go on · To what, where: nan, me, nightmares, line · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gives	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 MILLION	det
7	MILLION	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cheese	compound
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	u	u	ADP	_	10 gives	compound:prt
12	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 going	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gives	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 line	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 line	det
21	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · passive	nan	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
2	give u in a quote	present	nightmares			tree rules
3	go on	present · progressive			this line	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in line=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

A hyperbole for "often", and a claim with no good evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hyperbole	det
2	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 often	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 often	punct
5	often	often	ADV	_	2 hyperbole	nmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 often	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 claim	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 claim	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 claim	det
10	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hyperbole	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 evidence	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 evidence	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 evidence	amod
14	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 claim	nmod

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

Option 2

It is a proven fact that she repeats a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fact	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fact	det
4	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fact	amod
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 repeats	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 repeats	nsubj
8	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	prove	participle			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	It	a proven fact	tree rules
3	repeat	present	she	a lot	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality

Option 3

Nan is just joking, and she has never said it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 joking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joking	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 joking	advmod
4	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 joking	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	Nan						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	present · perfect	Nan	it		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nan has said it exactly one million times, so it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 million	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 true	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 true	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · perfect	Nan	it			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

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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