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title: Ascertain the gender of the noun "chaussette" on the basis of its te… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the gender of the noun "chaussette" on the basis of its terminal syllable. Exam question 1 of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

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Ascertain the gender of the noun "chaussette" on the basis of its terminal syllable.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** gender, basis

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» 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/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the gender of the noun "chaussette" on the basis of its terminal syllable.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	chaussette	chaussette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	terminal	terminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gender of the noun |  | the basis of basis's terminal syllable |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Indeterminable without a dictionary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e1:o1:1
# text = Indeterminable without a dictionary
1	Indeterminable	indeterminable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Feminine, the ending -ette being characteristic thereof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e1:o2:1
# text = Feminine, the ending -ette being characteristic thereof
1	Feminine	Feminine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ette	ette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the ending ette |  |  |  |  | characteristic, thereof *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Feminine, by reason of its meaning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e1:o3:1
# text = Feminine, by reason of its meaning
1	Feminine	Feminine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** |  | reason |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Masculine, the ending -ette being characteristic thereof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e1:o4:1
# text = Masculine, the ending -ette being characteristic thereof
1	Masculine	Masculine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ette	ette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | Masculine |  |  |  |  | characteristic, thereof *property* | 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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