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Exam question 2 · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

Identify the article appropriate to the noun "personne" where the person referred to is male.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, refer, be · To what, where: article, person

This is exam question 2 of lesson 25 «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 article	det
3	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 noun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noun	det
7	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 personne	punct
9	personne	personne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noun	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 personne	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 male	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 male	nsubj
14	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 person	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	14 referred	xcomp
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 male	cop
17	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 personne	amod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the article				appropriate property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent article=Theme
2	refer	participle		the person not said here					vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the person					male 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

l'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 l	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

le

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

les

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

la

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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