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title: Most words ending in -eau are masculine (le bateau, le gâteau, le ch… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics
description: Most words ending in -eau are masculine (le bateau, le gâteau, le château), but l'eau and la peau (skin) are feminine. Who acts: Most words, l'eau. 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
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# Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 12

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Most words ending in -eau are masculine (le bateau, le gâteau, le château), but l'eau and la peau (skin) are feminine.

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**Who acts:** Most words, l'eau · **What happens:** end, be · **To what, where:** eau

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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 (Most words, l'eau), 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:12
# text = Most words ending in -eau are masculine (le bateau, le gâteau, le château), but l'eau and la peau (skin) are feminine.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bateau	bateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	gâteau	gâteau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	château	château	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	l'eau	l'eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	la	la	X	GW	_	21	conj	_	_
24	peau	peau	X	NN	_	23	goeswith	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | gerund | Most words *not said here* |  |  | eau |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Most words |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | l'eau |  |  |  |  | feminine *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:12`.

**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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