Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★
★★★ Josh from Leeds says, "14h05 to 16h50? Two hours fifty-five, sorted." Which way of counting is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Josh, Two hours, way · What happens: say, sort, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Josh from Leeds says, "14h05 to 16h50?
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 Josh | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Leeds | case |
| 6 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Josh | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 14h05 | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 14h05 | punct |
| 10 | 14h05 | 14h05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 16h50 | case |
| 12 | 16h50 | 16h50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 14h05 | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Josh ★ ★ ★ from Leeds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: Two hours fifty-five, sorted."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sorted | nsubj |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 five | punct |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fifty | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hours | punct |
| 7 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorted | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | past | Two hours | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which way of counting is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 counting | case |
| 4 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which way of counting | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
2 h to 16h05, then 45 min
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nummod |
| 2 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 16h05 | case |
| 4 | 16h05 | 16h05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 min | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 min | advmod |
| 7 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 min | nummod |
| 8 | min | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 2 h | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3 h to 17h05, then 15 min more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nummod |
| 2 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 17h05 | case |
| 4 | 17h05 | 17h05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 more | advmod |
| 7 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 min | nummod |
| 8 | min | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 9 more | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 h | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1 h to 15h05, then 45 min
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nummod |
| 2 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 15h05 | case |
| 4 | 15h05 | 15h05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 h | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 min | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 min | advmod |
| 7 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 min | nummod |
| 8 | min | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 2 h | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nowhere, it really is 2 h 55
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 2 | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowhere | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 2 | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 2 | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 2 | cop |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 2 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 2 | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | 2 | h nmod:unmarked; nowhere property | 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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