NOTE:  This is a combination of Labs 2 and 3. 

1. a. Documentation the choices you made in the customization system, illustrated with examples from your test suite.
   b. Documentation the new or revised choices you made in the customization system, illustrated with examples from your test suite.

Word Order:  
Matrix clauses in French has a SVO Word order
French has determiners, whose order is Det-Noun, and they agree with the noun in person, number, and gender where applicable.  

To demonstrate this, I chose a masc and fem animate noun, and a masc and fem inanimate noun, a single optionally transitive verb, and made sentences with different combinations of number and gender in the subject and object:

#1 Correct word order - S V O 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: wo, agr 
le garçon mange le gâteau 
le           garçon       mang.e   le           gâteau
The.3SG-masc boy.3SG-masc eats.3SG the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc 
'The boy eats the cake' 

#3
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: wo, agr 
le garçon mange la pomme 
le           garçon       mang.e   la          pomme
The.3SG-masc boy.3SG-masc eats.3SG the.3SG-fem apple.3SG-fem
'the boy eats the apple.' 

I then, occasionally, mixed up the word order:

#23 - Incorrect word order - VSO 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: wo, agr 
mange la fille  le gâteau 
mang.e   la           fille          le           gâteau
eats.3SG The.3SG-fem  girl.3SG-masc  the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc 
'The girl eats the cake' 

And then some determiner-noun dischord:

#32 - det-noun mismatch in the subject 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: wo, agr 
les fille mange les biscuits 
les       fille         mang.e   les      biscuits 
The.3PL   girl.3SG-fem  eats.3SG the.3PL cookies.3PL-masc 
'The girl eats the cookies' 

And some noun verb dischord:

#40 3PL subject with 2SG verb:
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: agr 
il manges le gâteau 
il         mang.es    le           gâteau
he.3SG     eat.2SG    the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc 
'you eat the cake' 


French does have auxiliary verbs, which appear before its complement.  Those complements are V's, although, I don't think they do any raising.  Just tense marking.

There can be only 1 auxilliary in a clause. 

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to implement any uses of auxiliaries in this lab.. 

Number: French exhibits both singular and plural 

To illustrate this, I inflected certain nouns, biscuit, enfants, for plural, and used them in my sentences.  I also made use of the PL pronouns. 

#32 - 1SG subject with 2SG verb
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: agr 
Je manges le gâteau 
Je       mang.es     le           gâteau
I.1SG    eat.2SG the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc 
'I eat the cake' 

Person:  French distinguishes between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, with no subtypes on first. 

I defined all the personal pronouns, and used them freely in my examples of word order, agreement, etc.  I used correct forms, and ungrammatical forms: 

#3
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: wo, agr 
le garçon mange la pomme 
le           garçon       mang.e   la          pomme
The.3SG-masc boy.3SG-masc eats.3SG the.3SG-fem apple.3SG-fem
'the boy eats the apple.' 

#31 - det-noun mismatch in the object 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: wo, agr 
la fille mange le biscuits 
la           fille         mang.e   le      biscuits 
The.3SG-fem  girl.3SG-masc eats.3SG the.3PL cookies.3PL-masc 
'The girl eats the cookies' 

Gender: French has both masculine and feminine gender.  No neutral.  Animate nouns are categorized according to physical gender.  Inanimate nouns are categorized either masculine or feminine. 

I chose nouns of both genders, however, since I'm not using adjectives yet, I haven't had the opportunity to test this.  

Case:  French exhibits no case.  Argument roles are determined by word order, with the subject going before the verb, and the objects after. 

I exercised this in my word order examples. 

Tense & Aspect:  French distinguishes between past, present and future tenses.  As for aspect, while different forms of the past and future do display aspectual notions, other than the imperfect past (l'imparfait), I couldn't find any overt showing of aspect, for instance, I had issues finding out definitively, which future tense is imperfect.  I might consider building a tense heirarchy.  Really not sure what I am going to do here ultimately. 

I was able to implement the future perfective, and the past imperfect, and tested them with all the personal pronouns: 

#1 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: tam
Le garçon mangera le gâteau 
Le         garçon  manger.a     le      gâteau
the.non2SG boy.3SG will-eat.3SG the.3SG cake.3SG 
'the boy will eat the cake' 

#7
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: tam
vous mangiez les biscuits 
vous       mang.iez      les     biscuits
you.2PL    were-eating.2PL   the.3PL cookies.3PL
'you were eating the cookies' 

I also did some tests of subject-verb agreement:

#8 1SG subject with 1PL verb:
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: tam
je mangeaient les biscuits 
je       mange.aient      les     biscuits
I.1SG    was-eating.1PL    the.3PL cookies.3PL
'I was-eating the cookies'

Sentential Negation: French achieves negation through the use of both inflection (I considered the -pas a suffix on the verb) and an adverb (ne), which goes before the verb.  Once I tackle the complex tenses, that use an auxiliary, I may revise this.  

I wrote some test suite examples for this, but was unable to get those to unify.

Argument Optionality:  When the objects of a verb are represented by pronouns, those pronouns are dropped, and become prefixes to the verb.  This is a form of object dropping, I learned, where the object marker is required on the verb, exclusive of the overt object.  

I fully exercised this using the pronouns and various forms of the verb:

#6 plur, inanimate, pronominal object 
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: pro-d
il les-mange 
il          les-mang.e             
he.3SG-masc it.3SG-fem-eats.3SG   
'he eats them' 

I have not implemented any animate objects, and therefore, no pronouns. 

2. Descriptions of any properties of your language illustrated in your test suite but not covered by your starter grammar and/or the customization system. 

French forms the past perfective using an auxiliary, avoir or etre, conjugated, and the past participle of the verb.  Since these are irregular verbs, I was not entirely clear on how to input them, since they're not really inflections.  I treated them as such, making them suffixes on an empty stem.  My next problem was how to define the past paeticiple, and then associate it with the construction.  I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I wasn't able to find it. 

3. Documentation the coverage of your grammar over the testsuite. If there are examples that thare parsed incorrectly (unanalyzed grammatical examples, analyzed ungrammatical examples, or grammatical examples assigned surprising parses), reflect on why that might be. 

My test suite now contains 171 sentences.  Of those, thanks to overgeneration, I got 282 parses.  At last glance, nothing that should not have parsed parsed.  I think the sources of overgeneration are as follows:

1) verbs that are underspecified for gender can therefore parse as masculine and feminine.  This includes basically all the personal pronouns.. 

2) The way I put my verbs in.  I originally had my endings as verb inflections, a slot per person/number.  I then pulled them out and made them morphemes of a single verb slot.  Unfortunately, this lowered my parses drasically, so I re-added them as individual slots.  Consequently, sentences with those personal pronouns are likely parsing multiple times.  

In my test suite, I have 96 grammatical sentences, and 75 ungrammatical sentences.  The 9 examples of negation wouldn't have parsed, leaving 87/96 accurate parses, and 75/75 accurate non parses. 



Demonstratives/Definiteness:

Definiteness is achieved through the use of a different determiner, un, une, which also agrees with the noun in gender and number.  I demonstrated this in examples such as the following, where I interspersed this article in both the subject and the object:

#4
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: wo, agr
une fille mange le gâteau
une           fille         mang.e   le           gâteau
A.3SG-fem  girl.3SG-masc eats.3SG the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc
'A girl eats the cake'

#7
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenom: wo, agr
les enfants mangent un gâteau
les      enfants       mang.ent   un           gâteau
The.3pl  children.3PL  eat.3PL    a.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc
'The children eat a cake'

And then tested agreement by breaking those patterns:

#1 Fem article with masc noun
Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: u
Phenom: wo, agr
une garçon mange le gâteau
une           garçon       mang.e   le           gâteau
a.3SG-masc boy.3SG-masc eats.3SG   the.3SG-masc cake.3SG-masc
'a boy eats the cake'

Demonstratives:  These are yet another determiner, also declining for both gender and number, ce(t), cette, ces.  Further reference to proximity can be achieved using the sufixes -ci and -là on the noun.  Unfortunately, I was unable to implement these suffixes, and neglected to put any examples of these in my test suite. 
