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Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

★★★ Ava from Ohio reads "Mon amie Sacha est sportive" and says, "Sacha's a boy's name, so the sentence is wrong." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, Sacha, sentence · What happens: read, say, be · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Ava from Ohio reads "Mon amie Sacha est sportive" and says, "Sacha's a boy's name, so the sentence is wrong."

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 Ava	nmod:desc
4	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reads	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Ohio	case
6	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ava	nmod
7	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 amie	punct
9	Mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amie	compound
10	amie	amie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 est	nsubj
11	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 est	nsubj
12	est	est	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reads	parataxis
13	sportive	sportive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 est	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sportive	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 est	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
19	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 name	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 name	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 name	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 boy	case
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wrong	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 wrong	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sentence	det
28	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wrong	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wrong	cop
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reads	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 wrong	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Ava ★ ★ from Ohio						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	Ava ★ ★ from Ohio not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Sacha	a boy's name					tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the sentence					wrong property	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: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The sentence is about two different people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 people	nummod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the sentence	two different people					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Here Sacha is a girl: amie and sportive show it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 girl	advmod
2	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 amie	punct
7	amie	amie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sportive	cc
9	sportive	sportive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amie	conj
10	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sacha	a girl		here			tree rules
2	show	present	a girl	amie					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

She's right, it should be mon ami Sacha est sportif

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	9 ami	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ami	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ami	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ami	cop
8	mon	mon	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ami	nmod:poss
9	ami	ami	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis
10	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ami	appos
11	est	EST	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sacha	flat
12	sportif	sportif	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ami	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	is a	should	it	mon's ami and sportif					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sacha can never be a girl's name in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 name	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 name	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 name	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 name	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 French	case
10	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	Sacha	a girl's name		French			tree rules

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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