--- title: Ilo: what does "seriko" mean? — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made… · tree and pragmatics description: Ilo: what does "seriko" mean? Test 9 · ★★★ 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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages Ilo: what does "seriko" mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seriko · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** Ilo This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t9:1 # text = Ilo: what does "seriko" mean? 1 Ilo ilo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 seriko seriko NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | seriko | Ilo | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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} To sing ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t9:o1:1 # text = To sing 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} A runner ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t9:o2:1 # text = A runner 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A little song ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t9:o3:1 # text = A little song 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Singer ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages:t9:o4:1 # text = Singer 1 Singer Singer 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t8/) - next →: [Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/t10/) - ↑ back to [Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/)