Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★
★★★ Amira from Leicester says, "The l' is hiding it, innit." In L'arbre est grand. L'école est grande. L'hôtel est petit., how many words are feminine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amira, l, L'hôtel · What happens: say, hide, innit, be · To what, where: ★ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Amira from Leicester says, "The l' is hiding it, innit."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Amira | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Amira | Amira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Leicester | case |
| 6 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Amira | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hiding | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 l | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 l | det |
| 11 | l | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hiding | nsubj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 l | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hiding | aux |
| 14 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hiding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 17 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Amira ★ ★ ★ from Leicester | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hide in a quote | present · progressive | the l | ★ | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | 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: In L'arbre est grand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 L'arbre | case |
| 2 | L'arbre | L'arbre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grand | obl |
| 3 | est | EST | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 L'arbre | flat |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grand | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: L'école est grande.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'école | L'école | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'école | flat:foreign |
| 3 | grande | grande | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'école | flat:foreign |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 L'école | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: L'hôtel est petit., how many words are feminine?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'hôtel | L'hôtel | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 feminine | nsubj |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'hôtel | flat:foreign |
| 3 | petit | petit | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'hôtel | flat:foreign |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 L'hôtel | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feminine | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 feminine | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feminine | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feminine | cop |
| 10 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 feminine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | L'hôtel | feminine property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 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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