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    • Rules for Gender agreement for X

    The Gender values should match between the X and its governor (i.e syntactic head) when label = should-match, else any observed agreement is purely by chance (label = need-not-match)

    Agreement
    Gender need not match between the X and its governor or head when:
    X is nearby= object
    the head agrees with its head on= Gender-X
    ( Examples )
    OR

    the head agrees with its head on= Gender-X
    ( Examples )
    Generally Gender should match between the X and its governor or head
    Some examples are: Examples