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Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

★★★ Archie from Sheffield goes, "Ey up, they could all be green, so any word fits Les ___ sont vertes." Why only pommes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, they, word · What happens: go, be, fit · To what, where: Ey, Les

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Archie from Sheffield goes, "Ey up, they could all be green, so any word fits Les ___ sont vertes."

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 goes	nsubj
4	Archie	Archie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Sheffield	case
6	Sheffield	Sheffield	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Archie	nmod
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Ey	punct
10	Ey	Ey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 Ey	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 green	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 green	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 green	aux
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 green	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 green	cop
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Ey	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fits	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 fits	advmod
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fits	nsubj
22	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 goes	conj
23	Les	Les	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fits	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 Les	punct
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 Les	punct
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 vertes	punct
27	sont	sont	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vertes	compound
28	vertes	verte	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fits	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	★ ★ ★	Ey					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	could	they					all, green property	tree rules
3	fit in a quote	present	any word	Les				sont vertes obl	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent les=Patient

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 only pommes?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 pommes	advmod
3	pommes	pomme	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pommes is the only plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pommes	Pommes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 plural	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plural	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plural	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plural	amod
5	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pommes	the only plural					tree rules

Option 2

Only apples are green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 apples	advmod
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 green	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 green	cop
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	apples					green property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Vertes needs a feminine plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vertes	Vertes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plural	det
4	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plural	amod
5	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Vertes	a feminine plural					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plural=Theme

Option 4

Pommes is the shortest word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pommes	Pommes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pommes	the shortest word					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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