Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages
Lumi: you have "taki" (my cat) and want "my cats". What do you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: have, want, say · To what, where: Lumi, cats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: Lumi: you have "taki" (my cat) and want "my cats".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lumi | Lumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 taki | punct |
| 6 | taki | taki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 taki | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taki | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 want | cc |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cats | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cats | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 want | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cats | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | Lumi | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taki=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you not said here | my cats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme |
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 do you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
takisai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | takisai | takisai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
takiksai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | takiksai | takiksai | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
taksai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taksai | taksai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
taksaki
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taksaki | taksaki | NOUN | 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.
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