Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

★★★ What would happen if you said "le tour Eiffel" to a Parisian?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, you · What happens: ★, happen, say · To what, where: tour, Parisian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ★	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	advcl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tour	punct
11	le	le	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tour	det
12	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tour	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tour	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Parisian	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Parisian	det
17	Parisian	Parisian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	★	present	★			tree rules
2	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you	le tour	a Parisian	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tour=Topic to parisian=Recipient

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

Nobody would understand anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Nobody	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You'd be talking about a trip, not the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talking	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 talking	aux
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 trip	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trip	det
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tower	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tower	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	would · progressive	You	the tower				about a trip	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about trip=Topic

Option 3

You'd be talking about a cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talking	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 talking	aux
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cake	det
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	would · progressive	You					about a cake	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cake=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would be perfectly correct

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	5 correct	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 correct	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 correct	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 correct	advmod
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					correct, perfectly property	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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