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title: So a table is la table, a book is le livre, and a man is still une p… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics
description: So a table is la table, a book is le livre, and a man is still une personne, while a baby girl is still un bébé. Who acts: table, book, man, baby girl. A sentence of the lesson «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 1

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So a table is la table, a book is le livre, and a man is still une personne, while a baby girl is still un bébé.

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**Who acts:** table, book, man, baby girl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** la table, le livre, une personne, un bébé

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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 (table, book, man, baby girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:025-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl.lesson:1
# text = So a table is la table, a book is le livre, and a man is still une personne, while a baby girl is still un bébé.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 025-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	livre	livre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	une	une	X	FW	_	20	compound	_	_
20	personne	personne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bébé	bébé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **is a** | present | a table | la table |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a book | le livre and la table and une personne and un bébé |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a man | une personne |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a baby girl | un bébé |  |  | still |  | 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:025-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl.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): R6-punct-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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