Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★
★★★ Leo from Wellington goes, "Chur, Mexique ends in e, so en Mexique." What's the catch?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, Mexique, catch · What happens: go, end, be · To what, where: Chur, e
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Leo from Wellington goes, "Chur, Mexique ends in e, so en Mexique."
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 Leo | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Wellington | case |
| 6 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Leo | nmod |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Chur | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Chur | punct |
| 10 | Chur | Chur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ends | punct |
| 12 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ends | nsubj |
| 13 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Chur | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 e | case |
| 15 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ends | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mexique | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 Mexique | advmod |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mexique | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Leo ★ ★ from Wellington | Chur | Mexique en obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chur=Theme | |||
| 2 | end in a quote | present | Mexique | Chur not said here | e | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chur=Eventuality |
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 the catch?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 catch | det |
| 4 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the catch | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He's right, en Mexique
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 | _ | 6 Mexique | punct |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mexique | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | Mexique en vocative; right property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Le Mexique is masculine, so au Mexique
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mexique | compound |
| 2 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 masculine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 masculine | cop |
| 4 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mexique | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 Mexique | advmod |
| 7 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mexique | compound |
| 8 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 masculine | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Le Mexique | masculine property | tree rules |
Option 3
It should be à Mexique
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 Mexique | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mexique | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Mexique | cop |
| 4 | à | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Mexique | amod |
| 5 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | It | à Mexique | tree rules |
Option 4
It should be aux Mexique
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 Mexique | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mexique | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Mexique | cop |
| 4 | aux | aux | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Mexique | amod |
| 5 | Mexique | Mexique | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | It | aux Mexique | 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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