Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★
★★★ Olivia from Bath reads 9,50 € and gasps, "Nine hundred and fifty euros for chips?!" How much would two kids' menus really cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Olivia, menus · What happens: read, gasp, cost · To what, where: hundred euros, much
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Olivia from Bath reads 9,50 € and gasps, "Nine hundred and fifty euros for chips?!"
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 Olivia | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Olivia | Olivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bath | case |
| 6 | Bath | Bath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Olivia | nmod |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 9,50 | 9,50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 € | nummod |
| 9 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 7 reads | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gasps | cc |
| 11 | gasps | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reads | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 euros | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 euros | punct |
| 14 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 euros | nummod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fifty | cc |
| 17 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | conj |
| 18 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gasps | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 chips | case |
| 20 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 euros | nmod |
| 21 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 18 euros | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 euros | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | Olivia ★ ★ ★ from Bath | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent €=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gasp | present | Olivia ★ ★ ★ from Bath not said here | hundred euros | for chips | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent euro=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: How much would two kids' menus really cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cost | obj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cost | aux |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kids | nummod |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 menus | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 kids | case |
| 7 | menus | menu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cost | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 cost | advmod |
| 9 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | would | two kids's menus | much | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
18 euros 50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9 euros 50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
19 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1,900 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,900 | 1,900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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