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title: Camille and Sacha can be names for boys or girls in French: "mon ami… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Camille and Sacha can be names for boys or girls in French: "mon ami Camille" is a boy, "mon amie Sacha est sportive" is a girl. Who acts: Camille, mon ami, Sacha, mon amie. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 16

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Camille and Sacha can be names for boys or girls in French: "mon ami Camille" is a boy, "mon amie Sacha est sportive" is a girl.

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**Who acts:** Camille, mon ami, Sacha, mon amie · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** names, French, boy, mon amie, girl

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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 (Camille, mon ami, Sacha, mon amie), 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:16
# text = Camille and Sacha can be names for boys or girls in French: "mon ami Camille" is a boy, "mon amie Sacha est sportive" is a girl.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Camille	Camille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ami	ami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	Camille	Camille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=32:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
24	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	amie	amie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	Sacha	Sacha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	est	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	sportive	sportive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | can | Camille and Sacha | names and a boy and a girl |  | French |  | for boys or girls | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mon ami | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sacha | mon amie *not said here* |  |  |  | sportive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | mon amie | a girl |  |  |  |  | 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:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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