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Gender: gender

The possible values for Gender in French is masculine or feminine. It occurs with nouns, adjectives, past participles, determiners and pronouns. Words from other languages can have a neutral gender.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Fem, Masc, Neut.

175638 tokens (44%) have a non-empty value of Gender. 20980 types (49%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. 13892 lemmas (42%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/NOUN (74266; 18% instances), fr-pos/DET (58574; 15% instances), fr-pos/ADJ (22699; 6% instances), fr-pos/VERB (11277; 3% instances), fr-pos/PRON (7982; 2% instances), fr-pos/AUX (829; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

74266 fr-pos/NOUN tokens (99% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (55733; 75%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (32943; 44% of non-empty Gender): ville, partie, région, fois, commune, années, famille, année, fin, place
• Masc (41322; 56% of non-empty Gender): ans, pays, nom, monde, temps, groupe, siècle, cours, lieu, homme
• Neut (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): Museum
• EMPTY (492): A, Co., league, world, Association, Company, Mt, Panther, Trail, blackface

Paradigm fois	Masc	Fem
Number=Sing		fois
Number=Plur	fois	fois

Gender seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 98% lemmas (9212) occur only with one value of Gender.

DET

58574 fr-pos/DET tokens (95% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Gender co-occurred: PronType=Art (50407; 86%), Number=Sing (45630; 78%), Definite=Def (40363; 69%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (26065; 44% of non-empty Gender): la, une, les, l’, sa, cette, des, ses, son, leur
• Masc (32509; 56% of non-empty Gender): le, les, un, l’, son, des, ce, ses, ces, de
• EMPTY (3192): les, l’, the, des, son, de, d’, ses, chaque, a

Paradigm le	Masc	Fem
Number=Sing		la
Number=Sing|PronType=Art	le, l', l	la, l', l, là
Number=Plur|PronType=Art	les	les, L

ADJ

22699 fr-pos/ADJ tokens (99% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (16471; 73%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (10701; 47% of non-empty Gender): première, française, grande, même, nouvelle, nombreuses, nationale, autres, seule, internationale
• Masc (11997; 53% of non-empty Gender): premier, français, autres, grand, nouveau, même, dernier, nombreux, seul, ancien
• Neut (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): Koninklijk
• EMPTY (175): National, live, American, Blue, complete, Last, new, Black, Dead, Global

Paradigm premier	Masc	Fem
Number=Sing	premier, 1er, 1e, Ier, Ie, 1	première, 1ère
Number=Plur	premiers	premières

VERB

11277 fr-pos/VERB tokens (31% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Gender co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (11277; 100%), VerbForm=Part (11277; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (11277; 100%), Tense=Past (11277; 100%), Number=Sing (9089; 81%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (3251; 29% of non-empty Gender): située, née, créée, appelée, utilisée, connue, construite, mise, publiée, nommée
• Masc (8026; 71% of non-empty Gender): né, fait, situé, été, eu, mort, connu, nommé, réalisé, utilisé
• EMPTY (24924): est, sont, a, était, fait, faire, être, fut, partir, trouve

Paradigm faire	Masc	Fem
Number=Sing	fait, fais	faite
Number=Plur	faits	faites

PRON

7982 fr-pos/PRON tokens (44% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (6899; 86%), Person=3 (6649; 83%), PronType=Prs (5807; 73%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (1743; 22% of non-empty Gender): elle, elles, une, la, celle, laquelle, celles, -elle, celle-ci, lesquelles
• Masc (6239; 78% of non-empty Gender): il, on, ils, le, un, -il, lequel, celui, tout, ceux
• EMPTY (10047): qui, se, s’, c’, lui, ce, nous, dont, où, je

Paradigm il	Masc	Fem
Number=Sing|Person=2	-Tu
Number=Sing|Person=3	il, -il, Lui, t-il	-elle, elle
Number=Sing	Lui
Number=Plur|Person=3	ils, -ils	elles, -elles

AUX

829 fr-pos/AUX tokens (9% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Gender co-occurred: Tense=Past (829; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (829; 100%), VerbForm=Part (829; 100%), Person=EMPTY (829; 100%), Number=Sing (828; 100%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): allée
• Masc (828; 100% of non-empty Gender): été, pu, dû, voulu, su, fallu, censé, fait, pû, resté
• EMPTY (8150): a, est, sont, ont, peut, fut, être, avait, avoir, ai

Gender seems to be lexical feature of AUX. 100% lemmas (12) occur only with one value of Gender.

NUM

10 fr-pos/NUM tokens (0% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

NUM tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Fem (10; 100% of non-empty Gender): 00H30, 12H30, 14h25, 15H00, 18h, 18h40, 20h40, 22h, 23h, 48H
• EMPTY (10654): deux, trois, 2, 3, 5, 4, quatre, 2010, 2009, 2008

Gender seems to be lexical feature of NUM. 100% lemmas (10) occur only with one value of Gender.

PROPN

1 fr-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

• Masc (1; 100% of non-empty Gender): mémorique
• EMPTY (30745): France, Paris, Europe, États-Unis, Jean, Maroc, État, la, Espagne, New

Relations with Agreement in Gender

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Gender: NOUN –[det]–> DET (49464; 99%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (18366; 99%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> DET (4282; 100%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (3351; 63%), NOUN –[acl]–> VERB (2962; 70%), VERB –[nsubjpass]–> NOUN (1624; 96%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (921; 97%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (906; 97%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (877; 58%), NOUN –[nsubj]–> NOUN (576; 61%).

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