Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★
★★★ Jayden's mate writes the penpal's number as 06 4201018 71 15 40. What's the mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, mistake · What happens: write, be · To what, where: number
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Jayden's mate writes the penpal's number as 06 4201018 71 15 40.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 4 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Jayden | case |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | nsubj |
| 7 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 penpal | det |
| 9 | penpal | penpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 number | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 penpal | case |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 writes | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 06 | case |
| 13 | 06 | 06 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 writes | obl |
| 14 | 4201018 | 4201018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 06 | flat |
| 15 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 06 | flat |
| 16 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 40 | compound |
| 17 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 71 | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ | the penpal's number | as 06 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent number=Result as 06=Attribute |
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's the mistake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mistake | det |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the mistake | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Quatre-vingt-dix-huit is one pair: 98
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 | 7 huit | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dix | punct |
| 5 | dix | dix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 huit | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dix | punct |
| 7 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pair | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pair | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pair | nummod |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 98 | punct |
| 12 | 98 | 98 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 pair | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | vingt dix huit | one pair | tree rules |
Option 2
Quarante should be 14
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quarante | Quarante | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 14 | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 14 | cop |
| 4 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Quarante | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | 14 | tree rules |
Option 3
Zéro six should be 6 only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zéro | Zéro | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 six | dep |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 6 | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 6 | cop |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 six | conj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 6 | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | 6 | tree rules |
Option 4
Soixante et onze should be 61
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soixante | Soixante | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 onze | amod |
| 2 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Soixante | flat |
| 3 | onze | onze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 61 | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 61 | cop |
| 6 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 onze | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | 61 | 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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