Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45. What's the right ending time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, film · What happens: read, say, end, be · To what, where: heures moins, 12:45 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Toronto | case |
| 6 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | onze | onze | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 heures | compound |
| 9 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moins | compound |
| 10 | moins | moins | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | obj |
| 11 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quart | det |
| 12 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 11:15 | case |
| 14 | 11:15 | 11:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 reads | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reads | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 film | det |
| 18 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ends | nsubj |
| 19 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 12:45 | case |
| 21 | 12:45 | 12:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 ends | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reads | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | ★ from Toronto | heures moins | as 11:15 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent moins=Recipient quart=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | ★ from Toronto not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | end | present | the film | 12:45 | 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 right ending time?
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 | 6 time | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 5 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | time | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1:15 | 1:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12:45 | 12:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12:15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12:15 | 12:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
11:45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11:45 | 11:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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