Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages

Ilo: what does "seriko" mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seriko · What happens: mean · To what, where: Ilo

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ilo	ilo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 mean	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seriko	punct
6	seriko	seriko	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seriko	punct
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ilo	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ilo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	seriko	Ilo					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sing	mark
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A runner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 runner	det
2	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A little song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 song	amod
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Singer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singer	Singer	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.

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