Exam question 3 · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

State which of the following nouns constitutes an exception to the general masculine gender of nouns ending in -age.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nouns · What happens: follow, constitute, end · To what, where: State, age

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 constitutes	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 nouns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nouns	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nouns	amod
6	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 constitutes	obl
7	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 State	appos
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 exception	det
9	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 constitutes	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 gender	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gender	det
12	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gender	amod
13	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gender	amod
14	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exception	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 nouns	case
16	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gender	nmod
17	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 nouns	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 age	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 in	punct
20	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ending	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	constitute	present		State		of the following nouns	tree rules
3	end	gerund	nouns not said here		in age		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

garage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

voyage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

fromage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

plage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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