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What is 1 trillion? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** trillion million, 1 trillion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money 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/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Leo's mate says, "A trillion is just a million with extra zeros, like 10 million." ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:1 # text = Leo's mate says, "A trillion is just a million with extra zeros, like 10 million." 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 trillion trillion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 ccomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 zeros zero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Leo's mate | | | | | with extra zeros | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with zero=Manner | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a trillion million | | | | | 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:* What is 1 trillion? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:2 # text = What is 1 trillion? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 trillion trillion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | 1 trillion | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 1,000 million ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:o1:1 # text = 1,000 million 1 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 1,000 billion, which is 1,000,000 million ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:o2:1 # text = 1,000 billion, which is 1,000,000 million 1 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 1,000,000 1,000,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | 1,000,000 million | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} 10 million ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:o3:1 # text = 10 million 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 100 billion ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t10:o4:1 # text = 100 billion 1 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|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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