Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★
★★★ Noah from Bristol picks soixante et onze as the odd one out "cos it ends in onze, not un". Why is his teacher not happy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, ★, teacher · What happens: pick out, end, not be · To what, where: soixante onze, onze
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Noah from Bristol picks soixante et onze as the odd one out "cos it ends in onze, not un".
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 picks | nsubj |
| 4 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 picks | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bristol | case |
| 6 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Noah | nmod |
| 7 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | soixante | soixante | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 onze | amod |
| 9 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 soixante | flat |
| 10 | onze | onze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picks | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picks | obl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 picks | compound:prt |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ends | punct |
| 17 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 19 ends | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ends | nsubj |
| 19 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 picks | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 onze | case |
| 21 | onze | onze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ends | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 un | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 un | advmod |
| 24 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 onze | appos |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 un | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | present | ★ ★ ★ | soixante onze | as the odd one | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onze=Patient | |||
| 2 | end in a quote | present | ★ | onze | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: Why is his teacher not happy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 happy | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Bristol's teacher | happy property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Vingt et un is the real odd one out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vingt | Vingt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 un | compound |
| 2 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Vingt | flat:foreign |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 7 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Vingt un | the real odd one | out property | tree rules |
Option 2
His answer is right and the teacher is wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 answer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrong | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teacher | det |
| 7 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrong | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | cop |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | His answer | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the teacher | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer | His = he | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The shared rule is et: 81 breaks it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 2 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rule | amod |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaks | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 et | cop |
| 5 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 rule | appos |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 81 | punct |
| 7 | 81 | 81 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 rule | conj |
| 8 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 breaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | break | present | the shared rule | it | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
Option 4
There is no odd one out at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 4 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 is | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 is | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out | present | no odd one | all; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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