Gender

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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.

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

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

174926 tokens (44%) have a non-empty value of Gender. 20941 types (49%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. 13831 lemmas (42%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. The feature is used with 9 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/NOUN (73653; 18% instances), fr-pos/DET (58560; 15% instances), fr-pos/ADJ (22627; 6% instances), fr-pos/VERB (11276; 3% instances), fr-pos/PRON (7967; 2% instances), fr-pos/AUX (831; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances).

`NOUN`

73653 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 (55224; 75%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (32580; 44% of non-empty Gender): ville, partie, fois, région, commune, années, famille, année, fin, place
Masc (41072; 56% of non-empty Gender): ans, pays, nom, monde, temps, groupe, siècle, cours, lieu, homme
Neut (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): Museum
EMPTY (453): A, Co., league, world, Company, Mt, Panther, Trail, blackface, facto

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

Gender seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 98% lemmas (9181) occur only with one value of Gender.

`DET`

58560 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=EMPTY (48393; 83%), Number=Sing (45620; 78%), Definite=Def (40352; 69%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (26066; 45% of non-empty Gender): la, une, les, l’, sa, cette, des, ses, son, leur
Masc (32494; 55% of non-empty Gender): le, les, un, l’, son, des, ce, ses, ces, de
EMPTY (3189): les, l’, the, des, son, d’, de, ses, chaque, leur

Paradigm le	`Masc`	`Fem`
`Number=Sing`	le, l', l	la, l', l, là
`Number=Plur`	les	les, L

`ADJ`

22627 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 (16406; 73%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (10654; 47% of non-empty Gender): première, française, grande, même, nouvelle, nombreuses, nationale, autres, seule, internationale
Masc (11972; 53% of non-empty Gender): premier, français, autres, grand, nouveau, même, dernier, nombreux, seul, ancien
Neut (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): Koninklijk
EMPTY (161): live, American, Blue, complete, Last, new, Black, Dead, Global, Globale

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

`VERB`

11276 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 (11276; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (11276; 100%), Tense=Past (11275; 100%), VerbForm=Part (11275; 100%), Number=Sing (9087; 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 (8025; 71% of non-empty Gender): né, fait, situé, été, eu, mort, connu, nommé, réalisé, utilisé
EMPTY (24886): est, sont, a, était, fait, faire, être, fut, partir, trouve

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

`PRON`

7967 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 (6888; 86%), Person=3 (6647; 83%), PronType=Prs (5805; 73%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (1740; 22% of non-empty Gender): elle, elles, une, la, celle, laquelle, celles, celle-ci, lesquelles, elle-même
Masc (6227; 78% of non-empty Gender): il, on, ils, le, un, lequel, celui, tout, ceux, eux
EMPTY (10063): 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, -t-il, Lui, t-il	-elle, -t-elle, elle
`Number=Sing`	Lui
`Number=Plur\|Person=3`	ils, -ils	elles, -elles

`AUX`

831 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: VerbForm=Part (831; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (831; 100%), Tense=Past (831; 100%), Person=EMPTY (831; 100%), Number=Sing (830; 100%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (1; 0% of non-empty Gender): allée
Masc (830; 100% of non-empty Gender): été, pu, dû, voulu, su, fait, fallu, censé, pû, resté
EMPTY (8160): 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 (10781): 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 (31319): France, Paris, Europe, États-Unis, Jean, Maroc, État, la, Espagne, New

`SYM`

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

SYM tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Masc (1; 100% of non-empty Gender): He
EMPTY (504): %, €, °, &, +, n°, $, =, H, m

Relations with Agreement in `Gender`

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Gender: NOUN –[det]–> DET (49100; 99%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (18148; 99%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> DET (4282; 100%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (3300; 63%), NOUN –[acl]–> VERB (2845; 69%), VERB –[nsubjpass]–> NOUN (1578; 96%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (988; 97%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (902; 97%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (868; 58%), VERB –[conj]–> VERB (609; 51%).

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