--- title: Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." (… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made… · tree and pragmatics description: Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ("Dead" means very.) What is right? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ("Dead" means very.) What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** mirus This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:1 # text = Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Tolo Tolo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 mirus mirus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Kai from Liverpool | mirus | | | | | tree rules | 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:* ("Dead" means very.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:2 # text = ("Dead" means very.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* What is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:3 # text = What is right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} kapamiru ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:o1:1 # text = kapamiru 1 kapamiru kapamiru NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} mirus ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:o2:1 # text = mirus 1 mirus mirus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} mirumirumiru ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:o3:1 # text = mirumirumiru 1 mirumirumiru mirumirumiru NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} mirumiru ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t2:o4:1 # text = mirumiru 1 mirumiru mirumiru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 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. 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