Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★
★★★ "I've told you a million times: Sirius is 8.6 light years away and shines 25 times brighter than the Sun!" Which number is hyperbole?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sirius, number · What happens: tell, be, shine · To what, where: ★ ★ ★, you, 8.6 light years, hyperbole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space 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: ★★★ "I've told you a million times: Sirius is 8.6 light years away and shines 25 times brighter than the Sun!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 million | det |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 years | punct |
| 13 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 years | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 years | cop |
| 15 | 8.6 | 8.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 years | compound |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 years | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shines | cc |
| 20 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 21 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 times | nummod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brighter | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 shines | xcomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 Sun | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sun | det |
| 26 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brighter | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sun | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sun | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | ★ ★ ★ | you | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Sirius | 8.6 light years | away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shine in a quote | present | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which number is hyperbole?
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 | 4 hyperbole | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hyperbole | cop |
| 4 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hyperbole | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which number | hyperbole | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A million times
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 | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
8.6 light years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8.6 | 8.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | compound |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 None | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
25 times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | 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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