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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★

★★★ Grace from Geneva writes quatre-vingt with no s and counts 11 letters, so she says huitante is 3 shorter. What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, ★, huitante · What happens: write, count, say, be, go · To what, where: quatre vingt, 11 letters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the French 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: ★★★ Grace from Geneva writes quatre-vingt with no s and counts 11 letters, so she says huitante is 3 shorter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	nsubj
4	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Geneva	case
6	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Grace	nmod
7	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vingt	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 quatre	punct
10	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 s	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 s	det
13	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writes	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 counts	cc
15	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 writes	conj
16	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 letters	nummod
17	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 counts	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 says	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 writes	parataxis
22	huitante	huitante	X	Foreign=Yes	25 shorter	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 shorter	cop
24	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 shorter	nummod
25	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 says	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	★ ★ ★	quatre vingt				with no s	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vingt=Theme
2	count	present	★ ★ ★ not said here	11 letters					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	huitante					short property	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: What went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Quatre-vingts has 14 letters, so 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 vingts	punct
3	vingts	vingt	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Quatre	appos
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 letters	nummod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 6	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 6	advmod
9	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Quatre	14 letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Alone, quatre-vingts keeps its s: 12 letters, so 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	6 keeps	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
3	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 vingts	punct
5	vingts	vingt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quatre	appos
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 s	nmod:poss
8	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 letters	punct
10	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 letters	nummod
11	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keeps	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 4	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 4	advmod
14	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 keeps	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	quatre	quatre's s				12 letters obl; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Huitante has 9 letters, so it's 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huitante	Huitante	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 letters	nummod
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 2	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 2	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 2	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 2	cop
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Huitante	9 letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
2	is a	present	it	2					tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, 3 is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Nothing	appos
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					right property	tree rules

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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