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title: Every animal word has a gender that belongs to the word, not to the… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Every animal word has a gender that belongs to the word, not to the animal: une tortue is always une, even if your tortoise is a boy. Who acts: animal word, gender, tortoise. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Pets and animals, sentence 1

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Every animal word has a gender that belongs to the word, not to the animal: une tortue is always une, even if your tortoise is a boy.

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**Who acts:** animal word, gender, tortoise · **What happens:** have, belong, be · **To what, where:** gender, une, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal word, gender, tortoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:1
# text = Every animal word has a gender that belongs to the word, not to the animal: une tortue is always une, even if your tortoise is a boy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 015-pets-and-animals.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	une	une	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	compound	_	_
19	tortue	tortue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	une	une	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every animal word | a gender |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient |
| 2 | **belong** | present | a gender |  |  |  |  | to the word and the animal | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a gender *not said here* | une |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your tortoise | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:1`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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