--- title: Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la both shrink to l', so l'eau… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics description: Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la both shrink to l', so l'eau and l'arbre hide their gender - you find it with un or une: une eau, un arbre. Who acts: le, l'eau, you. 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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 (le, l'eau, you), 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:4 # text = Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la both shrink to l', so l'eau and l'arbre hide their gender - you find it with un or une: une eau, un arbre. # 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 ×2 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 vowel vowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 h H NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 la la NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 both both ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 13 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 l l ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 16 ', ', NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 l'eau l'eau NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 l'arbre l'arbre NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 - - PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 eau eau NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 arbre arbre NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | le and la | l | | | before a vowel or a silent h | to ', *result*; both *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to ',=Result | | 2 | **hide** | present | l'eau and l'arbre | le's gender | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient | | 3 | **find** | present | you | l'eau | | | | with un or une | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:4`. **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 ×2. **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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