Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★
★★★ Harry from Leeds goes, "Fromage is soft and creamy, so it's a girl word, like." Use the ending to put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harry, Fromage, you · What happens: go, be, use, put · To what, where: girl word, ending, Harry
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» 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: ★★★ Harry from Leeds goes, "Fromage is soft and creamy, so it's a girl word, like."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Harry | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Leeds | case |
| 6 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Harry | nmod |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 soft | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 soft | punct |
| 10 | Fromage | fromage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soft | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soft | cop |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 goes | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 creamy | cc |
| 14 | creamy | creamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soft | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 word | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 word | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 word | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 word | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 word | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 word | compound |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soft | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 word | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Harry ★ ★ from Leeds | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Fromage | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | Fromage not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Fromage | a girl word | 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: Use the ending to put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ending | det |
| 3 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Use | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | the ending | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | you not said here | Harry | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It ends in -age, so it's la fromage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 in | punct |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fromage | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fromage | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fromage | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fromage | cop |
| 10 | la | la | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fromage | amod |
| 11 | fromage | fromage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | It | in age | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | age | la fromage | tree rules |
Option 2
Cheese has no gender in French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 gender | det |
| 4 | gender | gender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 French | case |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gender | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cheese | no gender | French | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient |
Option 3
He's right, it's la fromage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fromage | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fromage | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fromage | cop |
| 7 | la | la | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fromage | amod |
| 8 | fromage | fromage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | la fromage | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It ends in -age, so it's le fromage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 in | punct |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fromage | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fromage | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fromage | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fromage | cop |
| 10 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fromage | compound |
| 11 | fromage | fromage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | It | in age | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | age | le fromage | tree rules |
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