Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Ella from Dundee says, "It's all the same word, ken? Vair, vair, vair." What does the spelling show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, ★ · What happens: say, be, ken, do · To what, where: same word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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: ★★★ Ella from Dundee says, "It's all the same word, ken?
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 Ella | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Dundee | case |
| 6 | Dundee | Dundee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ella | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 word | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 word | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ken | punct |
| 17 | ken | ken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | parataxis |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Ella ★ ★ ★ from Dundee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | ★ | all same word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ken in a quote | infinitive | 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: Vair, vair, vair."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vair | vair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 vair | punct |
| 3 | vair | vair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vair | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vair | punct |
| 5 | vair | vair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vair | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vair | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vair | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What does the spelling show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 show | det |
| 4 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | compound |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two words: vert and verre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 vert | punct |
| 4 | vert | vert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 verre | cc |
| 6 | verre | verre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vert | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five words, one per vair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | appos |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 vair | case |
| 6 | vair | vair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One word said five times for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 word | nummod |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One word | time | for fun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four words: ver, vert, vers, verre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 words | nummod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 ver | punct |
| 4 | ver | ver | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 words | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vert | punct |
| 6 | vert | vert | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ver | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vers | punct |
| 8 | vers | ver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 verre | punct |
| 10 | verre | verre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | 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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