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title: ★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, châte… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy o… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau. How many are feminine? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

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★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau. How many are feminine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, many · **What happens:** list, be · **To what, where:** five eau words

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:1
# text = ★★★ Ollie's sister lists five -eau words: bateau, gâteau, eau, château, peau.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bateau	bateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gâteau	gâteau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	château	château	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	peau	peau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | present | ★ | five eau words |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many are feminine?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:2
# text = How many are feminine?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Two: eau and peau

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:o1:1
# text = Two: eau and peau
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	peau	peau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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None: all -eau words are masculine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:o2:1
# text = None: all -eau words are masculine
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | None |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One: only eau

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:o3:1
# text = One: only eau
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three: eau, peau and château

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl:t7:o4:1
# text = Three: eau, peau and château
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	peau	peau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	château	château	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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