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title: ★★★ Leo, wrapped in a big coat on a mild day, hears «you're nesh». R… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Leo, wrapped in a big coat on a mild day, hears «you're nesh». Ruby, in a T-shirt in the snow, hears «bit nippy out, innit». Who is dressed wrongly for the weather? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles

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★★★ Leo, wrapped in a big coat on a mild day, hears «you're nesh». Ruby, in a T-shirt in the snow, hears «bit nippy out, innit». Who is dressed wrongly for the weather?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, you, Ruby · **What happens:** wrap, hear, be, innit, dress · **To what, where:** ★, big coat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Leo, wrapped in a big coat on a mild day, hears «you're nesh».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:1
# text = ★★★ Leo, wrapped in a big coat on a mild day, hears «you're nesh».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nesh	nesh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | participle |  | ★ ★ Leo *not said here* |  | a big coat on a mild day |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in coat=Destination |
| 2 | **hear** | present | ★ ★ Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | nesh *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Ruby, in a T-shirt in the snow, hears «bit nippy out, innit».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:2
# text = Ruby, in a T-shirt in the snow, hears «bit nippy out, innit».
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	nippy	nippy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Ruby |  |  |  |  | nippy *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Who is dressed wrongly for the weather?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:3
# text = Who is dressed wrongly for the weather?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for the weather; wrongly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ruby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:o1:1
# text = Ruby
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:o2:1
# text = Both
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:o3:1
# text = Leo
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neither

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t12:o4:1
# text = Neither
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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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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