--- title: A few words change meaning with gender: un livre is a book and une l… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics description: A few words change meaning with gender: un livre is a book and une livre is a pound; un tour is a trip and une tour is a tower, like la tour Eiffel. Who acts: few words, book, trip tour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few words, book, trip tour), 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:14 # text = A few words change meaning with gender: un livre is a book and une livre is a pound; un tour is a trip and une tour is a tower, like la tour Eiffel. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 meaning mean NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 livre livre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 livre livre NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 tour tour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 25 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 tour tour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tour tour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 Eiffel Eiffel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | a few words | meaning | | | | with gender and un livre | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent mean=Theme with gender=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a book and une livre | a pound and un tour | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | trip tour | a tower | | | | like la tour | tree rules | 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. **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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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