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title: ★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and gets "DIBU". What went wrong? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 choice wa
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and gets "DIBU". What went wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Freya · **What happens:** decode, get, go · **To what, where:** trois, DIBU

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and gets "DIBU".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Freya from Bristol decodes trois, huit, un, vingt with A = 0 and gets "DIBU".
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	Freya	Freya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	decodes	decode	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	trois	troi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	case	_	_
18	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	DIBU	DIBU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decode** | present | Freya  ★ ★ ★ from Bristol | trois and huit and un and vingt = 0 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | Freya  ★ ★ ★ from Bristol *not said here* | DIBU |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dibu=Stimulus |

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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 went wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:2
# text = What went wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A is 1, not 0: CHAT

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:o1:1
# text = A is 1, not 0: CHAT
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	CHAT	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She should count from Z backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:o2:1
# text = She should count from Z backwards
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | should | She |  |  | Z |  | backwards *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She mixed up huit and onze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:o3:1
# text = She mixed up huit and onze
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mixed	mix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	onze	onze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | past | She | huit and onze |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huit=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, DIBU is a French word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t9:o4:1
# text = Nothing, DIBU is a French word
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	DIBU	DIBU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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