Open questions
Every form LinguaMorpha produces for French is compared with an external source — the verbs with Wiktionary's conjugation tables. Every disagreement is recorded with its reason. Most are decided: a choice between grammars, a form the source lacks, a slip on our side that was fixed. The ones below are not. They are questions of French, not of software, and rather than settle them by guesswork they are listed here, for anyone who can answer them.
The questions are published as they stand in the register, in English.
Verbs — against Wiktionary
Nothing open in this section.
Decided and recorded in this section (4) — open for the reasons
Each line is one recorded disagreement: what it concerns, the verdict the comparison gave, and the reason the register keeps — the maintainers' own note, in English.
- valoir — imperatif_present · second · DIFFERS — vaux, not vaus. valoir writes -x in the first and second person singular (je vaux, tu vaux) and the impératif follows the présent tu, so vaux. Named in check_oracle_ratchet.py's header as one of the judgement calls that make the diff unsuitable as a gate; this is where it is written down. One cell, and the only French disagreement in 36,910.
- absoudre, distraire, extraire … (5) · we suppress — The -aire verbs and two neighbours have no passé simple and no subjonctif imparfait — a defectiveness the catalogue declares and the engine honours at step 0.3, and the same fact that made five corpus rows teaching *tu soustrayis* a finding rather than a typo. Every suppressed cell of theirs is in those two tenses.
- pleuvoir, grêler · we suppress — Impersonal: il pleut, il grêle, and no other person (the
impersonalflag; tonner is not on it, because it thunders against a government too, and the oracle and we agree on its full table). Named in diff_paradigm_against_reference.py's own header as the canonical case — 'Wiktionary conjugates pleuvoir in full; we restrict it'. - devoir, décéder, résulter — imperatif_present · we suppress — No imperative, for the same reason as the Spanish group above: *décède!* and *résulte!* are not things one says, and devoir's imperative is unused in modern French. Three cells each — tu, nous, vous — and nothing outside the impératif.
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