Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Mason from Boston says, "Wicked, a secret code!" Which list decodes forêt, hôpital, fête, île correctly?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mason, list · What happens: say, decode · To what, where: forêt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Mason from Boston says, "Wicked, a secret code!"
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 Mason | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Boston | case |
| 6 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mason | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wicked | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wicked | punct |
| 10 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 code | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 code | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 code | amod |
| 14 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Wicked | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wicked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mason ★ ★ ★ from Boston | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: Which list decodes forêt, hôpital, fête, île correctly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 list | det |
| 2 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decodes | nsubj |
| 3 | decodes | decode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forêt | forêt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decodes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hôpital | punct |
| 6 | hôpital | hôpital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forêt | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fête | punct |
| 8 | fête | fête | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forêt | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 île | punct |
| 10 | île | île | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forêt | conj |
| 11 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 3 decodes | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 decodes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decode | present | which list | forêt and hôpital and fête and île | correctly property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
forty, hospital, fete, eel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hospital | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hospital | punct |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fete | punct |
| 5 | fete | fete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hospital | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eel | punct |
| 7 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hospital | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
forest, hotel, feast, isle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hotel | punct |
| 3 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feast | punct |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 isle | punct |
| 7 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
fort, hotel, fat, ill, all short
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hotel | punct |
| 3 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fort | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fat | punct |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fort | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fat | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 short | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 fort | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
forest, hospital, feast, isle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hospital | punct |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feast | punct |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 isle | punct |
| 7 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forest | 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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