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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home. Why does NICHE work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** go, innit, try, turn, work · **To what, where:** CHIEN, home

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:1
# text = ★★★ Lily from Brighton goes, "Bare hard, innit," trying to turn CHIEN into a dog's home.
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	Brighton	Brighton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	CHIEN	CHIEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | ★ ★ Lily from Brighton |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | ★ ★ Lily from Brighton *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ★ ★ Lily from Brighton *not said here* | CHIEN |  | a dog's home |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chien=Theme into home=Trajectory |

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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:* Why does NICHE work?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:2
# text = Why does NICHE work?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	NICHE	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It's CHIEN read backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:o1:1
# text = It's CHIEN read backwards
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	CHIEN	CHIEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | CHIEN |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | past | CHIEN |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It adds a letter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:o2:1
# text = It adds a letter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | It | a letter |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It uses the same five letters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:o3:1
# text = It uses the same five letters
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | It | the same five letters |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It drops the H

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t3:o4:1
# text = It drops the H
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	H	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | It | the H |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent h=Theme |

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**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.

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