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title: Select the feminine form corresponding to the masculine noun "direct… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the feminine form corresponding to the masculine noun "directeur". Exam question 3 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 right.
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

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Select the feminine form corresponding to the masculine noun "directeur".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, feminine form · **What happens:** select, correspond · **To what, where:** feminine form

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e3:1
# text = Select the feminine form corresponding to the masculine noun "directeur".
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	directeur	directeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the feminine form |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **correspond** | gerund | the feminine form *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the masculine noun | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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directrice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e3:o1:1
# text = directrice
1	directrice	directrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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directière

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e3:o2:1
# text = directière
1	directière	directière	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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directeuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e3:o3:1
# text = directeuse
1	directeuse	directeuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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directeure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e3:o4:1
# text = directeure
1	directeure	directeure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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