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title: Words ending in -tion are feminine: la station, la question, la nata… — Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl · tree and pragmatics
description: Words ending in -tion are feminine: la station, la question, la natation. Who acts: Words. 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 8

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Words ending in -tion are feminine: la station, la question, la natation.

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**Who acts:** Words · **What happens:** end, be · **To what, where:** tion

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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 (Words), 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:8
# text = Words ending in -tion are feminine: la station, la question, la natation.
# 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
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	tion	tion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	natation	natation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **end** | gerund | Words *not said here* |  |  | tion |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | Words |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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