Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★
★★★ Hannah from Edinburgh reads "Je suis fatigué mais content !" (no extra e's) on a note. Who wrote it, her brother or her sister?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Je · What happens: read, content, write · To what, where: note · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Hannah from Edinburgh reads "Je suis fatigué mais content !"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Hannah | case |
| 4 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Edinburgh | case |
| 6 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Je | punct |
| 9 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 content | nsubj |
| 10 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | fatigué | fatigué | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 12 | mais | mais | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 content | compound |
| 13 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 content | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 content | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | ★ ★ Hannah from Edinburgh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | content in a quote | Je | 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: (no extra e's) on a note.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 e | punct |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 e | det |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 e | amod |
| 4 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 e | case |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 e | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 note | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 note | det |
| 9 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 e | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 e | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Who wrote it, her brother or her sister?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sister | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrote | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | note | Edinburgh's brother or Edinburgh's sister obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Her sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Her brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both of them together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Both | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Either, you can't tell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Either | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tell | advmod |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | can | you | either property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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