Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Jake from Bradford counts on his fingers from mardi, calling mardi "one", and ends on jeudi. What's the fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, fix · What happens: count, call, end, be · To what, where: mardi, jeudi · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Jake from Bradford counts on his fingers from mardi, calling mardi "one", and ends on jeudi.
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 counts | nsubj |
| 4 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bradford | case |
| 6 | Bradford | Bradford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jake | nmod |
| 7 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 fingers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 counts | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mardi | case |
| 12 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fingers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 counts | advcl |
| 15 | mardi | mardi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calling | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mardi | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ends | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ends | cc |
| 21 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 counts | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 jeudi | case |
| 23 | jeudi | jeudi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ends | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | ★ ★ ★ | on Jake's fingers from mardi | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | ★ ★ ★ not said here | mardi | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mardi=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | end | present | ★ ★ ★ not said here | jeudi | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 the fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fix | det |
| 4 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fix | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Count 11 days, so it's samedi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 samedi | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 samedi | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 samedi | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 samedi | cop |
| 8 | samedi | samedi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | day | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | samedi | tree rules |
Option 2
He's right, it's jeudi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | _ | 7 jeudi | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jeudi | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 jeudi | cop |
| 7 | jeudi | jeudi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | jeudi | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Start from mercredi: vendredi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 mercredi | case |
| 3 | mercredi | mercredi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Start | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 vendredi | punct |
| 5 | vendredi | vendredi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mercredi | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | mercredi and vendredi | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Count back, so it's samedi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Count | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 samedi | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 samedi | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 samedi | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 samedi | cop |
| 7 | samedi | samedi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count back | imperative | you not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | samedi | 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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