Duolingo, I'm going to need you to tell me what genre we're in

[kaberett]

The screenshot above is from a Duolingo "Complete the chat" exercise, with a prompt sentence and two possible responses to choose between. It goes as follows:

Prompt:	C'était d'habitude une petite rue très sûre, très calme.	It was usually a very safe, very quiet little road.
Option 1:	Oui, il y avait souvent des accidents mystérieux.	Yes, there were often mysterious accidents.
Option 2 (selected):	Oui, on ne se sentait jamais en danger.	Yes, one never felt oneself to be in danger.

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

Toujours A.

[ludy]

Eep!

[frith]

Literary genre? Like, say, Roman Noir? I have no clue, but the lead in sentence states that the road in question is usually quiet and reliably so. Ergo, not a place for 'mysterious accidents'. The answer is (2).

If you mean genre as in "le complément d'objet direct se conjugue en genre et en nombre avec le sujet", then the genre is feminine for la rue, danger is masculine and so is accidents.

[alexseanchai]

Peut-être que la chouette est transgenre ? 😛😸

[frith]

C'est la revolution!

[azurelunatic]

Habituellement, mais pas toujours!

[silveradept]

I agree. Needs more context. Although Duolingo probably assumed the second answer was the right one, because they haven't read enough horror novels.

[vass]

Clearly these three sentences are all part of the same opening paragraph.

C'était d'habitude une petite rue très sûre, très calme. Oui, on ne se sentait jamais en danger. Oui, il y avait souvent des accidents mystérieux, mais...

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes!

[lunabee34]

This is just the lead in to when the alien mothership appears.

[simont]

"It was usually a very safe, very quiet little road. But Alex was not yet aware that they were about to cycle along it into ... the Twilight Zone."

[davidgillon]

It's clearly a choisir votre aventure!