--- title: Every French noun is masculine (le, un) or feminine (la, une); it is… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics description: Every French noun is masculine (le, un) or feminine (la, une); it is about the word, not about being a boy or a girl. Who acts: French noun, noun. 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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 (French noun, noun), 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:5 # text = Every French noun is masculine (le, un) or feminine (la, une); it is about the word, not about being a boy or a girl. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 masculine masculine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 la la ADV FW _ 12 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 26 about about SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | every French noun | | | | | masculine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | every French noun *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | noun | | | | | about the word | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** | gerund | | a boy or a girl | | | | | 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:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy o…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/4/) - next →: [Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy o…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/)