Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★

★★★ What would happen if you read 06 98 71 15 40 to a French friend digit by digit, "zéro, six, neuf, huit..."?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, you · What happens: ★, happen, read · To what, where: 06

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ★	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 read	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 read	nsubj
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	advcl
10	06	06	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 read	obj
11	98	98	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 71	compound
12	71	71	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 06	nmod
13	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 40	compound
14	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 06	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 digit	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 digit	det
17	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 digit	amod
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 digit	compound
19	digit	digit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 40	nmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 digit	case
21	digit	digit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 digit	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 zéro	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 zéro	punct
24	zéro	zéro	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ★	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 six	punct
26	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 zéro	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 neuf	punct
28	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 six	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 huit	punct
30	huit	huit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 zéro	appos
31	...	...	PUNCT	_	30 huit	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 huit	punct
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	★	present	★		tree rules
2	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	read a condition, not said to happen	present	you	06 98 71	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 06=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 · ✓ the right answer

She'd understand, but the French say it in pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 French	det
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 pairs	case
11	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	the French	it		pairs			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pair=Manner

Option 2

She'd think you were speaking Belgian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speaking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speaking	aux
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
7	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She					belgian property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past · progressive	you						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She'd think it was a date

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 date	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 date	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 date	det
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a date					tree rules

Option 4

She'd hear a totally different number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 number	det
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 different	advmod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 number	amod
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	She	a different number					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus

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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