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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

★★★ Riley from Phoenix swaps the colours and writes "un chat blanche, une souris noir". What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: swap, write, be · To what, where: colours, un chat blanche

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Riley from Phoenix swaps the colours and writes "un chat blanche, une souris noir".

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	7 swaps	nsubj
4	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Phoenix	case
6	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod
7	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colours	det
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swaps	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 writes	cc
11	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swaps	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 un	punct
13	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	15 blanche	flat:foreign
14	chat	chat	X	Foreign=Yes	15 blanche	compound
15	blanche	blanche	X	Foreign=Yes	11 writes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 noir	punct
17	une	une	X	_	19 noir	compound
18	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	19 noir	compound
19	noir	noir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blanche	appos
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 noir	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	★ ★ ★ from Phoenix	the colours					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme
2	write	present	★ ★ ★ from Phoenix not said here	un chat blanche					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanche=Theme

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: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

Each colour must match: blanc, noire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 match	aux
4	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 blanc	punct
6	blanc	blanc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 match	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 noire	punct
8	noire	noire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blanc	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	must	each colour	blanc and noire					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanc=Patient

Option 2

Only souris is wrong: it should be un souris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
2	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 un	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 un	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 un	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 un	cop
9	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	4 wrong	parataxis
10	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	9 un	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	souris					wrong property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, the colours copy straight across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 copy	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colours	det
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 copy	nsubj
5	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 across	advmod
7	across	across	ADV	_	5 copy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	the colours	Nothing				across property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only chat is wrong: it should be une chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 chat	advmod
2	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 chat	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chat	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 chat	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 chat	cop
9	une	une	X	_	10 chat	compound
10	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	chat					wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	should	chat	une chat					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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