--- title: ★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. Who is «not a million miles a… — Not unhappy and not half: litotes · tree and pragmatics description: ★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. Who is «not a million miles away»? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Not unhappy and not half: litotes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★ · Not unhappy and not half: litotes ★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. Who is «not a million miles away»? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** answer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 85 This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» of the language 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:1 # text = ★ In a guessing game the answer is 85. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 guessing guessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 85 85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the answer | 85 | | | | | 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:* Who is «not a million miles away»? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:2 # text = Who is «not a million miles away»? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | million miles *obl:unmarked*; away *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Leo, who guessed 1,000,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:o1:1 # text = Leo, who guessed 1,000,000 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 1,000,000 1,000,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Leo | 1,000,000 | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1,000,000=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Zoe, who guessed 300 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:o2:1 # text = Zoe, who guessed 300 1 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Zoe | 300 | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Ben, who guessed 82 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:o3:1 # text = Ben, who guessed 82 1 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 82 82 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Ben | 82 | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 82=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Mia, who guessed 30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:50-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes:t6:o4:1 # text = Mia, who guessed 30 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past | Mia | 30 | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Theme | **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. 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