Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★
Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed." It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3. How bad is it really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, It · What happens: say, lose, doom, go, be · To what, where: Little brother, we, 1 lost lunchbox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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: Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Teacher | punct |
| 5 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brother | acl:relcl |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lunchboxes | amod |
| 8 | lunchboxes | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 % | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 % | cop |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 200 | advmod |
| 11 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | !!! | !!! | PUNCT | _ | 16 doomed | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 doomed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 doomed | aux:pass |
| 16 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 doomed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 doomed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Teacher | Little brother not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | doom in a quote | present · passive | we | 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: It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3.
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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 lunchbox | case |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 lunchbox | nummod |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lunchbox | amod |
| 6 | lunchbox | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 3 | case |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | It | 1 lost lunchbox | to 3 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from lunchbox=Initial_Location to 3=Destination | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How bad is it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bad | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bad | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 bad | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | bad property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three hundred lunchboxes missing now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lunchboxes | nummod |
| 3 | lunchboxes | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missing | nsubj |
| 4 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 missing | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
200 more lunchboxes lost this term
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 lunchboxes | nummod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lunchboxes | amod |
| 3 | lunchboxes | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 term | det |
| 6 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | 200 more lunchboxes | this term | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality |
Option 3
The school is really, truly doomed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 school | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 doomed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doomed | punct |
| 6 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 doomed | advmod |
| 7 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | the school | doom, truly property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two more lost lunchboxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lunchboxes | nummod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 lost | advmod |
| 3 | lost | lost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lunchboxes | amod |
| 4 | lunchboxes | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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