Exam question 1 · Telling the time

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: grammatical gender

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Telling the time» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gender	det
10	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gender	amod
11	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 heure	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heure	det
14	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heure	compound
15	heure	heure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gender	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the grammatical gender of the noun heure				of the following statements; accurately property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is feminine, whence the expression une heure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feminine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feminine	cop
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whence	punct
5	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	3 feminine	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heure	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 une	compound
8	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heure	compound
9	heure	heure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whence	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					feminine property	tree rules

Option 2

It possesses no gender whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 possesses	nsubj
2	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 gender	det
4	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possesses	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 possesses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	It	no gender				whatsoever property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gender=Theme

Option 3

It is masculine, whence the expression un heure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 masculine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 masculine	cop
3	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whence	punct
5	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	3 masculine	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heure	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 un	compound
8	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heure	compound
9	heure	heure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whence	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					masculine property	tree rules

Option 4

It is masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 masculine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 masculine	cop
3	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 singular	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 singular	det
6	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 masculine	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feminine	cc
8	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 masculine	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 plural	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plural	det
11	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feminine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the singular		masculine property	tree rules
2	be					the plural			tree rules

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