Exam question 4 · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★
It is given that the sum of soixante-dix and vingt-cinq is required. State the said sum in the French of France.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give, require, sum, say · To what, where: It, sum, soixante dix · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that the sum of soixante-dix and vingt-cinq is required.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 required | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 required | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dix | case |
| 8 | soixante | soixante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dix | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 soixante | punct |
| 10 | dix | dix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sum | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cinq | cc |
| 12 | vingt | vingt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cinq | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 cinq | punct |
| 14 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dix | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 required | aux:pass |
| 16 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | require | present · passive | the sum of soixante dix and vingt cinq | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | sum | soixante dix and vingt cinq | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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: State the said sum in the French of France.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sum | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sum | det |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sum | amod |
| 4 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 French | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 French | det |
| 7 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sum | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 France | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 French | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
soixante-quinze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soixante | soixante | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 quinze | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 soixante | punct |
| 3 | quinze | quinze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
quatre-vingt-quinze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vingt | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 quatre | punct |
| 3 | vingt | vingt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quinze | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 quinze | punct |
| 5 | quinze | quinze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nonante-cinq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nonante | nonante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cinq | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 nonante | punct |
| 3 | cinq | cinq | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
quatre-vingt-cinq
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vingt | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 quatre | punct |
| 3 | vingt | vingt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cinq | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 cinq | punct |
| 5 | cinq | cinq | 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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