Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Kai from Auckland matches chocolatine to Quebec and tuque to France. What's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: match, be · To what, where: chocolatine, Quebec
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Kai from Auckland matches chocolatine to Quebec and tuque to France.
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 matches | nsubj |
| 4 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Auckland | case |
| 6 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | chocolatine | chocolatine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matches | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Quebec | case |
| 10 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 matches | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tuque | cc |
| 12 | tuque | tuque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Quebec | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 France | case |
| 14 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tuque | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 matches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | present | ★ ★ ★ from Auckland | chocolatine | Quebec and tuque to France | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent chocolatine=Patient to quebec=Co-Patient |
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 right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both are made-up words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present · passive | Both | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
Option 2
Chocolatine: Paris; tuque: Haiti
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolatine | Chocolatine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuque | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Paris | punct |
| 3 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chocolatine | conj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 tuque | punct |
| 5 | tuque | tuque | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Haiti | punct |
| 7 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuque | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both are from Quebec
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Quebec | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Quebec | cop |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Quebec | case |
| 4 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | Quebec | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Chocolatine: France; tuque: Quebec
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolatine | Chocolatine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuque | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 France | punct |
| 3 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chocolatine | conj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 tuque | punct |
| 5 | tuque | tuque | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Quebec | punct |
| 7 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tuque | appos |
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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