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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★

★★★ Sophie from Glasgow reads "je vais à la librairie... J'achète un livre sur les chevaux" and says, "She's borrowing a horse book from the library, aye?" Which word proves she's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sophie, J'achète, word · What happens: read, say, borrow, prove, be · To what, where: vais, horse book, library · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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: ★★★ Sophie from Glasgow reads "je vais à la librairie...

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	4 Sophie	nmod:desc
4	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reads	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Glasgow	case
6	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sophie	nmod
7	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 vais	punct
9	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	10 vais	nsubj
10	vais	vais	X	Foreign=Yes	7 reads	obj
11	à	à	ADP	_	13 librairie	case
12	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 librairie	det
13	librairie	librairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vais	obl
14	...	...	PUNCT	_	7 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Sophie ★ ★ ★ from Glasgow	vais					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vais=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.

Sentence 2: J'achète un livre sur les chevaux" and says, "She's borrowing a horse book from the library, aye?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'achète	J'achète	X	Foreign=Yes	9 says	nsubj
2	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	1 J'achète	flat:foreign
3	livre	livre	X	Foreign=Yes	1 J'achète	flat:foreign
4	sur	sur	X	Foreign=Yes	6 chevaux	compound
5	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	6 chevaux	compound
6	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 J'achète	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 chevaux	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 borrowing	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 borrowing	punct
12	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 borrowing	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 borrowing	aux
14	borrowing	borrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 book	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 book	compound
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 borrowing	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 library	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 library	det
20	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 book	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 aye	punct
22	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 book	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 borrowing	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 borrowing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	J'achète						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	borrow	present · progressive	Sophie	a horse book and aye		the library			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from library=Source

Sentence 3: Which word proves she's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proves	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	which word						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	word					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

sur, about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sur	sur	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sur	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	1 sur	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

j'achète, I'm buying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	j'achète	j'achète	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buying	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 buying	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buying	aux
5	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 j'achète	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present · progressive	I						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

avec, with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avec	avec	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 with	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 avec	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

samedi, Saturday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	samedi	samedi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Saturday	punct
3	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 samedi	conj

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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