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title: ★★★ Emma from Leeds reads "on a nagé dans la mer" and goes, "Easy, t… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Emma from Leeds reads "on a nagé dans la mer" and goes, "Easy, they swam with their mum, like." What's the trap? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★

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★★★ Emma from Leeds reads "on a nagé dans la mer" and goes, "Easy, they swam with their mum, like." What's the trap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Emma, dans, trap · **What happens:** read, go, swim, be · **To what, where:** la

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Emma from Leeds reads "on a nagé dans la mer" and goes, "Easy, they swam with their mum, like."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:1
# text = ★★★ Emma from Leeds reads "on a nagé dans la mer" and goes, "Easy, they swam with their mum, like."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Emma	Emma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	nagé	nagé	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dans	dan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	_
14	mer	mer	X	FW	_	13	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | Emma  ★ ★ ★ from Leeds | la |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent la=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | present | Emma  ★ ★ ★ from Leeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swim** *in a quote* | past | dans *= dan* |  |  |  |  | with dans's mum | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mum=Theme |

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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:* What's the trap?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:2
# text = What's the trap?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the trap |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nagé means walked, not swam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:o1:1
# text = Nagé means walked, not swam
1	Nagé	Nagé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	swam	swim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Nagé |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **swim** | participle | Nagé *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, la mer means mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing, la mer means mum
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
4	mer	mer	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Nothing | mum |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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On a means they will, not they did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:o3:1
# text = On a means they will, not they did
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **do** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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La mer is the sea; mother is la mère

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text:t1:o4:1
# text = La mer is the sea; mother is la mère
1	La	La	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	mer	mer	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	la	la	X	GW	_	0	root	_	_
10	mère	mère	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | La | the sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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