--- title: Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain? — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made… · tree and pragmatics description: Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain? Test 7 · ★★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [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/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** word · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** mountain water This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t7:1 # text = Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain? 1 Selk Selk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | would | which word | mountain water | | | | water from a mountain *obl* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} otamor ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t7:o1:1 # text = otamor 1 otamor otamor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} kiota ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t7:o2:1 # text = kiota 1 kiota kiota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} fenota ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t7:o3:1 # text = fenota 1 fenota fenota NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} morota ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t7:o4:1 # text = morota 1 morota morota NOUN NN 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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