--- title: In the statement "Mon doudou ? Il est sous le lit.", determine the g… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In the statement "Mon doudou ? Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou. Exam question 4 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ In the statement "Mon doudou ? Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** determine · **To what, where:** gender This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* In the statement "Mon doudou ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:1 # text = In the statement "Mon doudou ? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Mon mon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 doudou doudou X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:2 # text = Il est sous le lit.", determine the gender of the noun doudou. 1 Il Il X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 2 est est X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 sous sous X FW _ 5 compound _ _ 4 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 5 compound _ _ 5 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 doudou doudou X FW Foreign=Yes 14 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the gender of the noun | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Neither ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:o1:1 # text = Neither 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Feminine ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:o2:1 # text = Feminine 1 Feminine feminine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Both, interchangeably ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:o3:1 # text = Both, interchangeably 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 interchangeably interchangeably ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Masculine ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:e4:o4:1 # text = Masculine 1 Masculine masculine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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