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Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★

Your mate: "I've balanced an egg like a billion times on the equinox, so it ONLY works then." What's the hole in his proof?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, hole, his · What happens: balance, work, be, proof · To what, where: egg

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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: Your mate: "I've balanced an egg like a billion times on the equinox, so it ONLY works then."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balanced	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 balanced	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 balanced	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 balanced	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 balanced	aux
7	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balanced	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 times	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 times	det
12	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 balanced	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 equinox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 equinox	det
16	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 times	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 works	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 works	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 works	nsubj
20	ONLY	only	ADV	_	21 works	advmod
21	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 balanced	conj
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 works	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 balanced	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 balanced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	balance in a quote	present · perfect	Your mate	a egg			time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme
2	work in a quote	present	mate				then		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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's the hole in his proof?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 proof	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 proof	nmod:poss
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the hole in his proof						tree rules
2	proof		his = he						nom proof «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

A billion tries is still not quite enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tries	det
2	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tries	nummod
3	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quite	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 quite	advmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 quite	advmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 tries	acl:relcl
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 quite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a billion tries not said here				still	enough, quite property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Eggs really do stand only on the equinox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stand	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 equinox	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 equinox	det
8	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present · do-support	Eggs			the equinox			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on equinox=Location

Option 3

He should have used hard-boiled eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	aux
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 used	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 eggs	amod
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	should · perfect	He	boiled eggs				hard property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
2	boil	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He never tried on any other day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 day	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not try	past	He				day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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