Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 4

Before a vowel or a silent h, le and la both shrink to l', so l'eau and l'arbre hide their gender - you find it with un or une: une eau, un arbre.

Who acts: le, l'eau, you · What happens: shrink, hide, find · To what, where: l, gender, l'eau

This is a sentence of the lesson «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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 (le, l'eau, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	3 vowel	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vowel	det
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrink	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 h	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 h	det
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 h	amod
7	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vowel	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 le	punct
9	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrink	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 la	cc
11	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 le	conj
12	both	both	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 shrink	advmod
13	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 find	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 ',	case
15	l	l	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shrink	obl
16	',	',	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrink	nmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 hide	advmod
18	l'eau	l'eau	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hide	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 l'arbre	cc
20	l'arbre	l'arbre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 l'eau	conj
21	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 shrink	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gender	nmod:poss
23	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hide	obj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 vowel	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
26	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 un	case
29	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 une	cc
31	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 un	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 eau	punct
33	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eau	compound
34	eau	eau	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 un	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 arbre	punct
36	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 arbre	compound
37	arbre	arbre	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eau	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	le and la	l	before a vowel or a silent h	to ', result; both property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to ',=Result
2	hide	present	l'eau and l'arbre	le's gender			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Patient
3	find	present	you	l'eau		with un or une	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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, 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:025-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl.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 ×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.

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