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title: Job words change in patterns: boulanger to boulangère, chanteur to c… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Job words change in patterns: boulanger to boulangère, chanteur to chanteuse, acteur to actrice; so danseur gives danseuse, fermier gives fermière and directeur gives directrice. Who acts: Job words, danseur, fermier, directeur. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the 
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# Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

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Job words change in patterns: boulanger to boulangère, chanteur to chanteuse, acteur to actrice; so danseur gives danseuse, fermier gives fermière and directeur gives directrice.

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**Who acts:** Job words, danseur, fermier, directeur · **What happens:** change, give · **To what, where:** patterns, danseuse, fermière, directrice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» 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 (Job words, danseur, fermier, directeur), 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:10
# text = Job words change in patterns: boulanger to boulangère, chanteur to chanteuse, acteur to actrice; so danseur gives danseuse, fermier gives fermière and directeur gives directrice.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	boulanger	boulanger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	boulangère	boulangère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	chanteur	chanteur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chanteuse	chanteuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	acteur	acteur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	actrice	actrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	danseur	danseur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	danseuse	danseuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
24	fermier	fermier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	fermière	fermière	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	directeur	directeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	directrice	directrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **change** | present | Job words |  |  | patterns |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | danseur | danseuse |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danseuse=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | fermier | fermière |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fermière=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | directeur | directrice |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent directrice=Theme |

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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:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, 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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