Exam question 2 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
It is given that the present day is mardi. Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, week · What happens: give, be, ascertain, fall · To what, where: It, day mardi
This is exam question 2 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
Sentence 1: It is given that the present day is mardi.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mardi | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mardi | compound |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mardi | cop |
| 9 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | day mardi | 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: Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fall | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fall | aux |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 week | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fall | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 9 fall | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | day | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | shall | the week | day | hence property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
samedi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | samedi | samedi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
vendredi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vendredi | vendredi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
mercredi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mercredi | mercredi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
jeudi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jeudi | jeudi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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