--- title: A French gender puzzle is a detective story: the noun hides its gend… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A French gender puzzle is a detective story: the noun hides its gender, and you must find it from clues - the ending of the word, or the little words and endings around it. Who acts: French gender puzzle, noun, 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 (French gender puzzle, noun, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:0 # text = A French gender puzzle is a detective story: the noun hides its gender, and you must find it from clues - the ending of the word, or the little words and endings around it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 detective detective NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 - - PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 around around ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 38 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a French gender puzzle | a detective story or the little words around noun and endings | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | present | the noun | noun's gender | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient | | 3 | **find** | must | you | gender | | clues | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from clue=Source | | 4 | **end** | | | the word | | | | | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles/15/) - next →: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/)