Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★
★★★ Mia from Ohio thinks farine is "a farm" and sucre is "a sucker". What does she actually need to buy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, farine, sucre · What happens: think, be, need, buy · To what, where: farm, sucker · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Mia from Ohio thinks farine is "a farm" and sucre is "a sucker".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Ohio | case |
| 6 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | farine | farine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farm | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 farm | cop |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 farm | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 farm | det |
| 12 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 farm | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sucker | cc |
| 15 | sucre | sucre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sucker | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sucker | cop |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sucker | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sucker | det |
| 19 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farm | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sucker | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | ★ from Ohio | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | farine | a farm and a sucker | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | sucre | a sucker | tree rules |
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 does she actually need to buy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 buy | mark |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | ★ | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | ★ not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A farm, three eggs, milk and a sweet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farm | det |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eggs | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eggs | nummod |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 farm | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 milk | punct |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farm | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sweet | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sweet | det |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farm | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fruit, two eggs, milk and lots of sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eggs | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eggs | nummod |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fruit | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fruit | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lots | cc |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fruit | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sugar | case |
| 10 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Flour, three eggs, butter and salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eggs | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eggs | nummod |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flour | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 butter | punct |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flour | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 salt | cc |
| 8 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flour | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Flour, 3 eggs, milk, a little sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eggs | punct |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 eggs | nummod |
| 4 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flour | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flour | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sugar | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sugar | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sugar | amod |
| 10 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flour | 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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