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title: Some animals have a male and a female word: le chien and la chienne,… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics
description: Some animals have a male and a female word: le chien and la chienne, le lion and la lionne; at school the main word, le chien, is enough. Who acts: animals, main 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 dep
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# Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 13

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Some animals have a male and a female word: le chien and la chienne, le lion and la lionne; at school the main word, le chien, is enough.

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**Who acts:** animals, main word · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** male, school

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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 (animals, main 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:13
# text = Some animals have a male and a female word: le chien and la chienne, le lion and la lionne; at school the main word, le chien, is enough.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	la	la	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
15	chienne	chienne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	la	la	X	GW	_	18	appos	_	_
21	lionne	lionne	X	NN	_	20	goeswith	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **have** | present | some animals | a male and a female word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Patient |
| 2 | **does** | present | the main word and le chien |  |  | school |  | enough *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at school=Location |

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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:13`.

**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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