Exam question 2 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

Identify the noun ending in -té which constitutes an exception to the general feminine gender of such nouns.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, noun, té · What happens: identify, end, constitute · To what, where: noun, té, exception

This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noun	det
3	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 noun	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 té	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ending	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 constitutes	nsubj
9	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 té	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 exception	det
11	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 constitutes	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 gender	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gender	det
14	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gender	amod
15	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gender	amod
16	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 constitutes	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 nouns	case
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nouns	amod
19	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gender	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the noun			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme
2	end	gerund	the noun not said here		té		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	constitute	present	té	a exception		to the general feminine gender of such nouns	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exception=Pivot

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

liberté

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

santé

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	santé	santé	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

beauté

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

été

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	été	été	PROPN	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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