Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Oscar from Birmingham guesses "loads, mate" for silent final letters in "Les petits chats sont gris", then counts 5. Which words did he miss a second letter in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, words · What happens: guess, count, miss in · To what, where: loads, 5, second letter
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Oscar from Birmingham guesses "loads, mate" for silent final letters in "Les petits chats sont gris", then counts 5.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 guesses | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Oscar | case |
| 4 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Birmingham | case |
| 6 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | guesses | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 loads | punct |
| 9 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guesses | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loads | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 loads | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 letters | case |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 letters | amod |
| 15 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 letters | amod |
| 16 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guesses | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 chats | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 chats | punct |
| 19 | Les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chats | det |
| 20 | petits | petits | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 chats | amod |
| 21 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 letters | nmod |
| 22 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 gris | compound |
| 23 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chats | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 gris | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 counts | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 counts | advmod |
| 27 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 guesses | conj |
| 28 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 counts | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 guesses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | ★ ★ Oscar from Birmingham | loads and mate | for silent final letters in les petits chats and sont gris | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | present | ★ ★ Oscar from Birmingham not said here | 5 | then | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Theme |
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 words did he miss a second letter in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 miss | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miss | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 miss | nsubj |
| 5 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 letter | amod |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miss | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 miss | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 miss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss in | past · do-support | which words | a second letter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
sont and gris, each with two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gris | cc |
| 3 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sont | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 each | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 sont | appos |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 two | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 each | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only gris, with s and i
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 gris | advmod |
| 2 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 s | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 s | case |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gris | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 i | cc |
| 7 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gris | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
les and gris, each with two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gris | cc |
| 3 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 les | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 each | punct |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 les | appos |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 two | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 each | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
petits and chats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | petits | petit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chats | cc |
| 3 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 petits | 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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