Exam question 4 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★
In the statement "Mon doudou ? Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: determine · To what, where: gender
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: In the statement "Mon doudou ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 statement | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 statement | det |
| 3 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mon | punct |
| 5 | Mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 statement | conj |
| 6 | doudou | doudou | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 statement | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Il | Il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 lit | nsubj |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Il | flat:foreign |
| 3 | sous | sous | X | _ | 5 lit | compound |
| 4 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 lit | compound |
| 5 | lit | lit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 determine | punct |
| 9 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 lit | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gender | det |
| 11 | gender | gender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 determine | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 noun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 noun | det |
| 14 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gender | nmod |
| 15 | doudou | doudou | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 noun | dep |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine in a quote | infinitive | the gender of the noun | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Feminine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feminine | feminine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both, interchangeably
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Both | punct |
| 3 | interchangeably | interchangeably | ADV | _ | 1 Both | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Masculine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masculine | masculine | 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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