Exam question 1 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

Determine the number of distinct words, homophonous with "vair", contained in the sentence "Un ver vert va vers un verre vert".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, contain · To what, where: number, distinct words, sentence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 homophonous	punct
8	homophonous	homophonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	appos
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 vair	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 vair	punct
11	vair	vair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 homophonous	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 homophonous	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 contained	punct
14	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 words	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sentence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sentence	det
17	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contained	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Un	punct
19	Un	Un	X	Foreign=Yes	17 sentence	appos
20	ver	ver	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
21	vert	vert	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
22	va	va	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
23	vers	vers	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
24	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
25	verre	verre	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
26	vert	vert	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Un	flat:foreign
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Un	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the number of distinct words					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	contain	participle		distinct words not said here		the sentence			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sentence=Location

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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