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title: Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're d… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed." It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3. How bad is it really? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

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Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed." It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3. How bad is it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher, It · **What happens:** say, lose, doom, go, be · **To what, where:** Little brother, we, 1 lost lunchbox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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/politics/42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:1
# text = Little brother: "Teacher said lost lunchboxes are up 200%!!! we're doomed."
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	lunchboxes	lunchbox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Teacher | Little brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **doom** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | 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:* It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:2
# text = It went from 1 lost lunchbox to 3.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | It |  |  | 1 lost lunchbox |  | to 3 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from lunchbox=Initial\_Location to 3=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* How bad is it really?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:3
# text = How bad is it really?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three hundred lunchboxes missing now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:o1:1
# text = Three hundred lunchboxes missing now
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	lunchboxes	lunchbox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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200 more lunchboxes lost this term

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:o2:1
# text = 200 more lunchboxes lost this term
1	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	lunchboxes	lunchbox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | 200 more lunchboxes | this term |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The school is really, truly doomed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:o3:1
# text = The school is really, truly doomed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | the school |  |  |  | doom, truly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two more lost lunchboxes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick:t6:o4:1
# text = Two more lost lunchboxes
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	lost	lost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lunchboxes	lunchbox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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