Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★
Zoe sobs, "I've ruined everything a hundred times this year." Her friend counts: 2 bad moments. Which number tells the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zoe, I, friend, number · What happens: sob, ruin, count, tell · To what, where: everything, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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: Zoe sobs, "I've ruined everything a hundred times this year."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | 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 ruined | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruined | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ruined | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruined | aux |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sobs | ccomp |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 ruined | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruined | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sobs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | present | Zoe | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ruin in a quote | present · perfect | I | everything | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
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: Her friend counts: 2 bad moments.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 2 | punct |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 moments | nummod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moments | amod |
| 7 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counts | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Zoe's friend | moment | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: Which number tells the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | which number | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
102
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 102 | 102 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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