Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 1

Endings are the first clue: -ment, -age and -eau usually mean masculine, while -tion, -ette, -ure and -té usually mean feminine - but a good detective also remembers the famous rebels, like la plage and l'été.

Who acts: Endings, ment age, tion, good detective · What happens: be, mean, remember · To what, where: first clue, masculine, feminine, famous rebels

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Endings, ment age, tion, good detective), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Endings	ending	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clue	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clue	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clue	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 clue	amod
5	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 age	punct
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ment	punct
8	ment	ment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 age	compound
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ment	punct
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 age	punct
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mean	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eau	cc
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	eau	eau	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 age	conj
15	usually	usually	ADV	_	16 mean	advmod
16	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clue	parataxis
17	masculine	masculine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mean	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tion	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 tion	mark
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 while	punct
21	tion	tion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mean	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ette	punct
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ette	punct
24	ette	ette	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	21 tion	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ure	punct
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ure	punct
27	ure	ure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tion	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 té	cc
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 té	punct
30	té	té	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ure	conj
31	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 mean	advmod
32	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mean	conj
33	feminine	feminine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mean	obj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 remembers	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 remembers	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 detective	det
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 detective	amod
38	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 remembers	nsubj
39	also	also	ADV	_	40 remembers	advmod
40	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 té	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rebels	det
42	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rebels	amod
43	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 remembers	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 plage	punct
45	like	like	ADP	_	47 plage	case
46	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 plage	det
47	plage	plage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rebels	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 l'été	cc
49	l'été	l'été	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 plage	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clue	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Endings	the first clue		tree rules
2	mean	present	ment age and eau	masculine	usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent masculine=Topic
3	mean	present	tion and ette and ure and té	feminine	usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feminine=Topic
4	remember	present	a good detective	the famous rebels	like la plage and l'été	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rebel=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:french:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/1/