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Test 5 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

★★ A new word on a sign: bâtiment. Without a dictionary, which is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: ★, be · To what, where: new word, sign

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: ★★ A new word on a sign: bâtiment.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sign	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sign	det
8	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bâtiment	punct
10	bâtiment	bâtiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sign	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★	a new word		a sign and bâtiment			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.

Sentence 2: Without a dictionary, which is most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	3 dictionary	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dictionary	det
3	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 likely	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 likely	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 likely	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 likely	cop
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 likely	advmod
8	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						without a dictionary; likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

la bâtiment, with the feminine ending -ment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	bâtiment	bâtiment	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ment	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 ment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ment	det
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ment	amod
7	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ment	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct
9	ment	ment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 la	conj

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

Option 2

les bâtiment, because buildings are plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	2 bâtiment	compound
2	bâtiment	bâtiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plural	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 plural	mark
5	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plural	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plural	cop
7	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bâtiment	parataxis

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

le bâtiment, with the masculine ending -ment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	le	le	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bâtiment	det
2	bâtiment	bâtiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ment	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 ment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ment	det
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ment	amod
7	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ment	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ending	punct
9	ment	ment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bâtiment	conj

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

Option 4

la bâtimente, adding an e for a building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	bâtimente	bâtimente	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 adding	punct
4	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 la	advcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 e	det
6	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adding	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 building	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 building	det
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		a e				for a building	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient

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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