2022 · open round · B · 10 points
Who Saw the Bear?
Tom McCoy · morphology · syntax · table completion
Turkish is the national language of Turkey, spoken by approximately 80 million people in Turkey and elsewhere.
B1. Below are some sentences in Turkish, along with their English translations. Fill in the entries that are missing from the table.
| Turkish | English |
|---|---|
| Balık yüzdü. | The fish swam. |
| Zürafa atladı. | The giraffe jumped. |
| Fil koştu. | The elephant ran. |
| Kaplan kaplumbağa için atladı. | The tiger jumped for the turtle.1 |
| Balık kaplan gibi yüzdü. | The fish swam like the tiger. |
| Fil ayı gibi yüzdü. | The elephant swam like the bear. |
| Fil atladı. | |
| The turtle ran for the fish. |
B2. Here are some more Turkish sentences with English translations. Fill in the entries that are missing from the table.
| Kurbağa zürafayı gördü. | The frog saw the giraffe. |
| Zürafa martıyı gördü. | The giraffe saw the seagull. |
| Arı kurbağayı gördü. | The bee saw the frog. |
| Kim martıyı gördü? | Who saw the seagull? |
| Kim arıyı gördü? | Who saw the bee? |
| Arı kimi gördü? | Whom did the bee see? |
| Balina kimi gördü? | Whom did the whale see? |
| Martı kaplumbağayı gördü. | |
| Who saw the bear? | |
| Whom did the bear see? |
1. Whenever “for” appears in a translation in this problem, it means “for the benefit of,” not “toward.” (This information is not relevant for solving the problem.)
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