Test 3 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

Ruby from Belfast says, "Sun's a fella, moon's a girl, so every language does it like that, so it is." Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, Sun, moon, language · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: fella, girl, moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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

Sentence 1: Ruby from Belfast says, "Sun's a fella, moon's a girl, so every language does it like that, so it is."

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.

Sentence 2: Is she right?

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because the sun is stronger than the moon

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, German does it the other way round

Option 3

Yes, every language with gender agrees

Option 4

No, French makes the sun feminine too

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