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title: Le soleil (the sun) is masculine and la lune (the moon) is feminine;… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics
description: Le soleil (the sun) is masculine and la lune (the moon) is feminine; in German it is the other way round. Who acts: Le soleil, word. 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 the pragmatics of 
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# Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 10

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Le soleil (the sun) is masculine and la lune (the moon) is feminine; in German it is the other way round.

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**Who acts:** Le soleil, word · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** other way

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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 (Le soleil, word), 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:10
# text = Le soleil (the sun) is masculine and la lune (the moon) is feminine; in German it is the other way round.
# 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): no change
1	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soleil	soleil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lune	lune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | Le soleil |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Le soleil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Le soleil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | word | the other way |  |  |  | round *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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**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:10`.

**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.

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

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