--- title: Some words even change meaning with their gender, so the le or la is… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some words even change meaning with their gender, so the le or la is the only clue to what the sentence means. Who acts: words, le, sentence. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/) / 4 # Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 4 Some words even change meaning with their gender, so the le or la is the only clue to what the sentence means. **Who acts:** words, le, sentence · **What happens:** change, be, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, only clue 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 (words, le, sentence), 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:4 # text = Some words even change meaning with their gender, so the le or la is the only clue to what the sentence means. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 gender gender NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 la la NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | some words | meaning | | | | with clues's gender | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme with gender=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the le or la | the only clue | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | the sentence | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/)