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title: Most -age words are masculine, but la plage, la page, la cage and l'… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Most -age words are masculine, but la plage, la page, la cage and l'image are feminine exceptions. Who acts: age words, la plage. 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 every clause.
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# Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 6

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Most -age words are masculine, but la plage, la page, la cage and l'image are feminine exceptions.

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**Who acts:** age words, la plage · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** feminine exceptions

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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 (age 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:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:6
# text = Most -age words are masculine, but la plage, la page, la cage and l'image are feminine exceptions.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plage	plage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod
13	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	l'image	l'image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **is** | present | age words |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | la plage and la page and la cage and l'image | feminine exceptions |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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