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title: Word endings give hints about gender: words ending in -eau, like un… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: Word endings give hints about gender: words ending in -eau, like un chapeau (a hat) and un manteau (a coat), are almost always masculine, and words ending in -ette, like une casquette (a cap), almost always feminine. Who acts: Word endings, words. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french cou
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# Clothes, sentence 2

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Word endings give hints about gender: words ending in -eau, like un chapeau (a hat) and un manteau (a coat), are almost always masculine, and words ending in -ette, like une casquette (a cap), almost always feminine.

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**Who acts:** Word endings, words · **What happens:** give, end, be · **To what, where:** hints, eau, ette

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes» 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 (Word endings, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:017-clothes.lesson:2
# text = Word endings give hints about gender: words ending in -eau, like un chapeau (a hat) and un manteau (a coat), are almost always masculine, and words ending in -ette, like une casquette (a cap), almost always feminine.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 017-clothes.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): no change
1	Word	word	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hints	hint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
9	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chapeau	chapeau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	manteau	manteau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
36	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	ette	ette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	casquette	casquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	51	advmod	_	_
51	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | Word endings | hints |  |  |  | about gender | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | words *not said here* |  |  | eau |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | words |  |  |  |  | always, masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **end** | gerund | words *not said here* |  |  | ette |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **be** |  | words |  |  |  |  | always *property* | 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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**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): no change. **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.

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