Translation in the ‘sartinesa’ variant of the Corsican language. Scoring 1 – (1/110) = 99.09%.
Let us focus on the disambiguation of fourfold ambiguous French ‘pygmée’. A rare case of ambiguity between masculine/feminine singular. It can consist of:
Translating French into the ‘sartinesu’ variant of Corsican language: scoring 1 – (1/105) = 99.04%. Feigenbum hit? Yes: ‘médailleur’ is not common word.
Tagger improvement: fixed this issue. French ‘l’Empire allemand’ now translates properly into l’Imperu alimanu (the German Empire). French word ‘fin’ is now identified as a preposition when followed by a year number.
The above excerpt is translated into the ‘sartinesu’ variant of Corsican language.
This issue relates to the more general problem of the grammatical status of numbers, a problem to which we shall return later.
There is one informative error here: ‘a agité l’Empire allemand fin 1913’ (agitated the German Empire at the end of 1913) should translate into chì hà agitatu l’Imperu alimanu à a fini di u 1913. The translation error (l’Imperu alimana instead of l’Imperu alimanu) is due to the fact that the adjective alimana (feminine singular, German) accords erroneously with the feminine word fini (end). French ‘fin’ is short here for ‘à la fin de’. This casts light on the fact that French ‘fin’ is considered erroneously a feminine noun, whereas it is in reality a preposition which means ‘à la fin de’ (at the end of). The same goes when ‘fin’ is followed by a word denoting a month: ‘fin august’, ‘fin janvier’ (at the end of august, at the end of january). This applies both to Corsican and English.
French ‘il existe 29 parcs nationaux’ (there are 29 national parks) translates into Corsican: esistenu 29 parchi naziunali. When the verb ‘to exist’ is used and its object is plural, a plural form of the verb is required in Corsican language. The same goes for English, although the case is somewhat different, the translation switching here to the verb ‘to be’.
One error. Scoring 1 – (1/105) = 99.04%.
Is it a successful Feigenbaum hit? Certainly, since this kind of error is not a gross one. Undoubtedly, it can be considered as a type of error a human could do.
‘au stade de Wembley’ (at the Wembley Stadium) should translate in u stadiu di Wembley.
We face the issue of the translation of preposition ‘à’ since ‘au’ is short for ‘à le’ (to the), in particular when ‘à’ is followed by a noun phrase denoting a location. This occurs in the disambiguation of French ‘à’ which can can either translate into à (to) or into in (in).