Exam question 3 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration. State the hour of its conclusion.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film, you · What happens: commence, be, state, conclude · To what, where: moins, onze heures
This is exam question 3 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: A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 3 | commencing | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 film | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 heures | case |
| 5 | onze | onze | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 heures | compound |
| 6 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commencing | obl |
| 7 | moins | moins | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commencing | obj |
| 8 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quart | det |
| 9 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commencing | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 duration | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hours | det |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 hours | compound |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 duration | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 18 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | gerund | a film not said here | moins | onze heures | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a film | of one and a half hours's duration | 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: State the hour of its conclusion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 conclusion | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 conclusion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | conclude | film | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
midi et demi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | midi | midi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 et | amod |
| 2 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | demi | demi | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 et | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
midi moins le quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | midi | midi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | moins | moins | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 midi | conj |
| 3 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quart | det |
| 4 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moins | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
midi et quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | midi | midi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 3 quart | cc |
| 3 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 midi | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
une heure et quart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | _ | 2 heure | flat:foreign |
| 2 | heure | heure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 4 quart | cc |
| 4 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heure | 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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