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title: Liberté, égalité, fraternité are all feminine, like most -té words;… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Liberté, égalité, fraternité are all feminine, like most -té words; l'été (summer) and le côté (the side) are masculine exceptions. Who acts: Liberté, l'été. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 9

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Liberté, égalité, fraternité are all feminine, like most -té words; l'été (summer) and le côté (the side) are masculine exceptions.

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**Who acts:** Liberté, l'été · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** masculine 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 (Liberté, l'été), 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:9
# text = Liberté, égalité, fraternité are all feminine, like most -té words; l'été (summer) and le côté (the side) are masculine 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Liberté	Liberté	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	égalité	égalité	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	fraternité	fraternité	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
8	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	té	té	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	l'été	l'été	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	côté	côté	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | Liberté and égalité |  |  |  |  | like most té words; all, feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | l'été and le côté | masculine 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:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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