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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 (Most words, la plage), 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:9 # text = Most words ending in -age are masculine (le fromage, le garage, le voyage), but la plage, la page, la cage and l'image are feminine. # 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): no change 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 masculine masculine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 fromage fromage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 garage garage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 21 la la ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 plage plage NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 la la ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 la la ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 l'image l'image NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | gerund | Most words *not said here* | | | | in age | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | Most words | | | | | masculine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | la plage and la page | | | | | feminine *property* | 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. 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