--- title: La poste is the post office; le poste or un poste is a job: "Ma sœur… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: La poste is the post office; le poste or un poste is a job: "Ma sœur a un nouveau poste" means my sister has a new job. Who acts: poste, Ma, sister. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 7 La poste is the post office; le poste or un poste is a job: "Ma sœur a un nouveau poste" means my sister has a new job. **Who acts:** poste, Ma, sister · **What happens:** be, sœur, mean, have · **To what, where:** post office, job, un nouveau poste, new job · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (poste, Ma, sister), 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:7 # text = La poste is the post office; le poste or un poste is a job: "Ma sœur a un nouveau poste" means my sister has a new job. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 La la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poste poste NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 poste poste NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 un un DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 poste poste NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 Ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sœur sœur VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 nouveau nouveau NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 poste poste NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | la poste | the post office | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | le poste or un poste | a job | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sœur** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ma | a un nouveau poste | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | my sister | a new job | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/6/) - next →: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/)