Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages
Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ("Dead" means very.) What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: mirus
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the English 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mirus | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Liverpool | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Liverpool | case |
| 4 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kai | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 kid | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kid | punct |
| 7 | Tolo | Tolo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kid | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tolo | case |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kid | amod |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kid | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kid | punct |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kid | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mirus | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dogs | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 dogs | punct |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kid | conj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 dogs | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mirus | cop |
| 19 | mirus | mirus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 mirus | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mirus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Kai from Liverpool | mirus | 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: ("Dead" means very.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dead | punct |
| 3 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dead | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
kapamiru
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kapamiru | kapamiru | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
mirus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mirus | mirus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
mirumirumiru
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mirumirumiru | mirumirumiru | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
mirumiru
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mirumiru | mirumiru | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t2/