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title: The word's gender has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma chambre… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: The word's gender has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma chambre and a girl says ma chambre too, because chambre is a feminine word. Who acts: gender, boy, girl, chambre. A sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# My house and my home, sentence 1

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The word's gender has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma chambre and a girl says ma chambre too, because chambre is a feminine word.

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**Who acts:** gender, boy, girl, chambre · **What happens:** have, do, say, be · **To what, where:** nothing, ma chambre, feminine word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» 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 (gender, boy, girl, chambre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:021-my-house-and-my-home.lesson:1
# text = The word's gender has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma chambre and a girl says ma chambre too, because chambre is a feminine word.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 021-my-house-and-my-home.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the word's gender | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the word's gender *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy | ma chambre |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chambre=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a girl | ma chambre |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chambre=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | chambre | a feminine word |  |  |  |  | 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): 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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