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    • Rules for Gender agreement for DET

    The Gender values should match between the DET 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 DET and its governor or head when:
    DET is nearby= modifer
    DET has lemma= tas
    ( Examples )
    OR

    DET has lemma= kura
    ( Examples )
    OR

    DET has lemma= kurš
    ( Examples )
    OR

    DET is governed by= laiks
    DET has lemma= tas
    ( Examples )
    Generally Gender should match between the DET and its governor or head
    Some examples are: Examples