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Test 8 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

Mia from Ohio goes, "Okay, it's giving - so my bike's a girl too, une vélo." (it's giving = it seems like) Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, it, bike · What happens: go, give, be, seem, fix · To what, where: girl, bike

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Mia from Ohio goes, "Okay, it's giving - so my bike's a girl too, une vélo."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Ohio	case
3	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mia	nmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 giving	punct
7	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	11 giving	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Okay	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 giving	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 giving	aux
11	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 goes	advcl
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 girl	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 girl	advmod
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bike	nmod:poss
15	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 girl	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 girl	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 giving	parataxis
19	too	too	ADV	_	18 girl	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vélo	punct
21	une	une	X	_	22 vélo	compound
22	vélo	vélo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 girl	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Mia from Ohio						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give in a quote	present · progressive	it						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	my bike	a girl and une vélo					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: (it's giving = it seems like) Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 giving	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	=	=	PUNCT	_	7 seems	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	advcl
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 Fix	mark
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	Fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seems	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Fix	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · progressive	bike						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	seem	present	it						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	fix	infinitive		bike					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

la vélo: you must use la for bikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 use	nsubj
2	vélo	vélo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 use	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 bikes	case
9	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	must	la	la				for bikes	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent la=Theme for bike=Eventuality

Option 2

une vélo: bikes are feminine like cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	2 vélo	compound
2	vélo	vélo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 feminine	punct
4	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feminine	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feminine	cop
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vélo	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 cars	case
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feminine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bikes	une vélo not said here				like cars; feminine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

un vélo: bike is masculine, but une voiture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vélo	compound
2	vélo	vélo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 masculine	punct
4	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 masculine	cop
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vélo	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 voiture	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 voiture	cc
9	une	une	X	_	10 voiture	compound
10	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	parataxis

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

Option 4

une vélot: you add a t for feminine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	2 vélot	compound
2	vélot	vélot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	nmod:desc
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 add	nsubj
5	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 t	det
7	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 feminine	case
9	feminine	feminine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	you	une vélot				for feminine	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t=Patient

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