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title: ★★★ Which pair is one hyperbole and one understatement? — Told you a hundred times: how other la… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which pair is one hyperbole and one understatement? Test 10 of lesson 53 «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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.
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# Test 10 · Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate a…

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★★★ Which pair is one hyperbole and one understatement?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one hyperbole

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This is test 10 of lesson 53 «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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/53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Which pair is one hyperbole and one understatement?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	understatement	understatement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ★ ★ ★  which pair | one hyperbole and one understatement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Japanese «a boring little thing» and Ukrainian «Непогано»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down:t10:o1:1
# text = Japanese «a boring little thing» and Ukrainian «Непогано»
1	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Непогано	Непогано	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mandarin «è sǐ le» and French «a wolf's hunger»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down:t10:o2:1
# text = Mandarin «è sǐ le» and French «a wolf's hunger»
1	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	è	è	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **è** *in a quote* | past | Mandarin | sǐ le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunger** *in a quote* |  | French |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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French «a wolf's hunger» and Ukrainian «Непогано»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down:t10:o3:1
# text = French «a wolf's hunger» and Ukrainian «Непогано»
1	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Непогано	Непогано	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunger** *in a quote* |  | a wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spanish «mil veces» and English «a million times»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:53-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down:t10:o4:1
# text = Spanish «mil veces» and English «a million times»
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	mil	mil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	veces	vece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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