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title: Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la become l': l'eau (feminine),… — 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 become l': l'eau (feminine), l'arbre (masculine). Who acts: le. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 7

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Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la become l': l'eau (feminine), l'arbre (masculine).

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**Who acts:** le · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** l

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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 (le), 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:7
# text = Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la become l': l'eau (feminine), l'arbre (masculine).
# 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	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	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	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	l'eau	l'eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
21	l'arbre	l'arbre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	masculine	masculine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **become** | present | le and la | l |  |  | before a vowel or a silent h |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient l=Result |

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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:7`.

**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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