Test 7 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl
★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau. How many are feminine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, many · What happens: list, be · To what, where: five eau words
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lists | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 ★ | case |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | appos |
| 7 | lists | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 words | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 five | punct |
| 10 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | compound |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lists | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bateau | punct |
| 13 | bateau | bateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gâteau | punct |
| 15 | gâteau | gâteau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bateau | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eau | punct |
| 17 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bateau | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 château | punct |
| 19 | château | château | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bateau | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 peau | punct |
| 21 | peau | peau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bateau | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lists | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | present | ★ | five eau words | 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: How many are feminine?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feminine | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feminine | cop |
| 4 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feminine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many | feminine property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two: eau and peau
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 eau | punct |
| 3 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Two | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 peau | cc |
| 5 | peau | peau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eau | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None: all -eau words are masculine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 masculine | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 eau | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | compound |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 masculine | cop |
| 8 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | None | masculine property | tree rules |
Option 3
One: only eau
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 eau | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 eau | advmod |
| 4 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 One | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three: eau, peau and château
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 eau | punct |
| 3 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Three | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peau | punct |
| 5 | peau | peau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eau | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 château | cc |
| 7 | château | château | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eau | conj |
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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