Exam question 3 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

Select the feminine form corresponding to the masculine noun "directeur".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, feminine form · What happens: select, correspond · To what, where: feminine form

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 form	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 noun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noun	det
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noun	amod
9	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corresponding	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 directeur	punct
11	directeur	directeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noun	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 directeur	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the feminine form					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	correspond	gerund	the feminine form not said here					to the masculine noun	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

directrice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

directière

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

directeuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

directeure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	directeure	directeure	NOUN	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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