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title: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure? Exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Exam question 1 · Telling the time

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** grammatical gender

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/12-telling-the-time/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the grammatical gender of the noun heure?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	grammatical	grammatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the grammatical gender of the noun heure |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It is feminine, whence the expression une heure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:e1:o1:1
# text = It is feminine, whence the expression une heure
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It possesses no gender whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:e1:o2:1
# text = It possesses no gender whatsoever
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | It | no gender |  |  |  | whatsoever *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gender=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is masculine, whence the expression un heure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:e1:o3:1
# text = It is masculine, whence the expression un heure
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:e1:o4:1
# text = It is masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  | the singular |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  | the plural |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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