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title: ★★★ Lily from Brussels says, "Nonante's dead short - I bet it's half… — Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Lily from Brussels says, "Nonante's dead short - I bet it's half as long as quatre-vingt-dix." Is she right? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Lily from Brussels says, "Nonante's dead short - I bet it's half as long as quatre-vingt-dix." Is she right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, it · **What happens:** say, bet, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lily from Brussels says, "Nonante's dead short - I bet it's half as long as quatre-vingt-dix."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:1
# text = ★★★ Lily from Brussels says, "Nonante's dead short - I bet it's half as long as quatre-vingt-dix."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Nonante	Nonante	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bet	bet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ ★ Lily from Brussels |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bet** *in a quote* | present | ★ ★ Lily from Brussels *= ★* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | as quatre vingt dix; half, long *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is she right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:2
# text = Is she right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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}

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No: 7 letters against 16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:o1:1
# text = No: 7 letters against 16
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No: 8 letters against 14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:o2:1
# text = No: 8 letters against 14
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes: 6 letters against 12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes: 6 letters against 12
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Yes: 7 letters against 14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles:t3:o4:1
# text = Yes: 7 letters against 14
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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