--- title: It is given that the present day is mardi. Ascertain the day of the… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that the present day is mardi. Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence. Exam question 2 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/e2/) [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/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ It is given that the present day is mardi. Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, week · **What happens:** give, be, ascertain, fall · **To what, where:** It, day mardi This is exam question 2 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/#e2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that the present day is mardi. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:1 # text = It is given that the present day is mardi. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 mardi mardi NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | day mardi | | | | | 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:* Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:2 # text = Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall ten days hence. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 hence hence ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | day | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fall** | shall | the week | | | | day | hence *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} samedi ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:o1:1 # text = samedi 1 samedi samedi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} vendredi ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:o2:1 # text = vendredi 1 vendredi vendredi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} mercredi ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:o3:1 # text = mercredi 1 mercredi mercredi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} jeudi ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e2:o4:1 # text = jeudi 1 jeudi jeudi 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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