--- title: ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. In whi… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. In which year will she turn 80? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/t2/) [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/) / [★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. In which year will she turn 80? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** ★, tell, bear, turn · **To what, where:** Gran, me, ★, 1950, 80 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:1 # text = ★★★ Gran «has told me a thousand times» she was born in 1950. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | present | ★ | Gran | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | | | me | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **bear** | past · passive | | ★ | | 1950 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:* In which year will she turn 80? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:2 # text = In which year will she turn 80? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | future | ★ | 80 | | | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 80=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 2080 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:o1:1 # text = 2080 1 2080 2080 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 2050 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:o2:1 # text = 2050 1 2050 2050 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 2030 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:o3:1 # text = 2030 1 2030 2030 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1030 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t2:o4:1 # text = 1030 1 1030 1030 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 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. 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