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Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★

Grandad: "That flat map's not ideal, Greenland's a tad oversized." Is he exaggerating, playing it down, or exact?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, Greenland · What happens: not be, be, exaggerate, play down · To what, where: tad, map

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Grandad: "That flat map's not ideal, Greenland's a tad oversized."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ideal	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ideal	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ideal	punct
4	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 map	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 map	amod
6	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ideal	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ideal	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ideal	advmod
9	ideal	ideal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tad	punct
11	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tad	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tad	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tad	det
14	tad	tad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ideal	conj
15	oversized	oversized	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tad	amod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ideal	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ideal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Grandad					ideal property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	Greenland	a tad					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: Is he exaggerating, playing it down, or exact?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exaggerating	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 exaggerating	nsubj
3	exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 exaggerating	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 playing	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 playing	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 exact	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 exact	cc
10	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 exaggerating	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 exaggerating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	present · progressive	Greenland						tree rules
2	play down	gerund	Greenland not said here	map					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1

Exaggerating: maps are always perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 maps	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Exaggerating	punct
3	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 perfect	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 perfect	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 perfect	advmod
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	gerund							tree rules
2	is	present	Exaggerating maps					always, perfect property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Playing it down: Africa is about 14 times bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bigger	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Playing	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Playing	compound:prt
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Africa	punct
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 14	advmod
8	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bigger	obl:unmarked
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play down	gerund		it				Africa obl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	Playing				time	big property	tree rules

Option 3

Exact: the map is only slightly off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 map	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Exact	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 off	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 off	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 slightly	advmod
7	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Exact map					off, slightly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Exaggerating: Greenland is really bigger than Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 bigger	punct
3	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Exaggerating	parataxis
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	gerund							tree rules
2	is	present	Greenland					than Africa; big 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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