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Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home. Why does NICHE work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: go, innit, try, turn, work · To what, where: CHIEN, home

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Lily	case
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Brighton	case
6	Brighton	Brighton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lily	nmod
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
10	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hard	amod
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goes	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trying	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 trying	punct
16	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 goes	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 turn	mark
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 trying	xcomp
19	CHIEN	CHIEN	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 home	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 home	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 dog	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	★ ★ Lily from Brighton						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
3	try	gerund	★ ★ Lily from Brighton not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	★ ★ Lily from Brighton not said here	CHIEN		a dog's home			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chien=Theme into home=Trajectory

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: Why does NICHE work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 work	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	NICHE	niche	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	compound
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present · do-support							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's CHIEN read backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 CHIEN	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 CHIEN	cop
3	CHIEN	CHIEN	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	CHIEN					tree rules
2	read	past	CHIEN					backwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It adds a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	It	a letter					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It uses the same five letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 letters	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letters	amod
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 letters	nummod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	the same five letters					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 4

It drops the H

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drops	nsubj
2	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 H	det
4	H	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	It	the H					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent h=Theme

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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