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Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

★★★ Charlie from Kent says, "The sun's the boy, then. Easy." Why might a German speaker get it wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Charlie, sun, German speaker · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: boy, Easy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Charlie from Kent says, "The sun's the boy, then.

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 Charlie	nmod:desc
4	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Kent	case
6	Kent	Kent	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Charlie	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boy	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 boy	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boy	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 boy	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boy	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 says	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Charlie ★ ★ ★ from Kent				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the sun	the boy					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: Easy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easy	easy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Easy	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Easy	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Why might a German speaker get it wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 speaker	det
4	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speaker	amod
5	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	a German speaker	Easy					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

German has the same genders as French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 genders	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 genders	amod
5	genders	gender	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 French	case
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 genders	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	German	the same genders				as French	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient

Option 2

In German the table is masculine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 German	case
2	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 masculine	cop
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In German the sun is feminine and the moon masculine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 German	case
2	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feminine	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feminine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feminine	cop
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 masculine	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 masculine	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 masculine	compound
10	masculine	masculine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feminine	conj

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

Option 4

In German there are no genders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 German	case
2	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 are	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 genders	det
6	genders	gender	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no genders			German; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in german=Location

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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