--- title: Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." How many layers would there… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." How many layers would there be after 8 folds? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/t9/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Sounds wrong, but is right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." How many layers would there be after 8 folds? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ella, many layers · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** paper brick · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:1 # text = Ella: "Told ya, it's a paper brick now." 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 ya ya NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Ella | a paper brick | | | now | | 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:* How many layers would there be after 8 folds? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:2 # text = How many layers would there be after 8 folds? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | many layers | | | | after 8 folds | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 256 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:o1:1 # text = 256 1 256 256 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 128 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:o2:1 # text = 128 1 128 128 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 16 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:o3:1 # text = 16 1 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 64 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t9:o4:1 # text = 64 1 64 64 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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