Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★
Lily sobs, "I've cried for a MILLION hours since Biscuit died." How many hours should you count?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, I, Biscuit, many hours · What happens: sob, cry, die, count
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection 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: Lily sobs, "I've cried for a MILLION hours since Biscuit died."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sobs | nsubj |
| 2 | sobs | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | aux |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sobs | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 MILLION | det |
| 10 | MILLION | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 died | mark |
| 13 | Biscuit | Biscuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | present | Lily | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · perfect | I | hour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | past | Biscuit | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: How many hours should you count?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 count | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 count | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 count | nsubj |
| 6 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | should | many hours | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A thousand, because a million is too many
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 many | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thousand | punct |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 million | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 million | det |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 many | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a thousand because a million obl; many property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
None; it just means a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | None | a lot | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
Option 3
A million exactly, as she said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 million | det |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | obl |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 million | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | a million | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
About half a million, since people exaggerate by half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 million | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 million | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 million | det |
| 4 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 exaggerate | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exaggerate | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 exaggerate | mark |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exaggerate | nsubj |
| 8 | exaggerate | exaggerate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 exaggerate | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exaggerate | present | half million | by half | 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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