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Feature gend

Articles agree in gender to the noun they specify. The values masculine and feminine and common are pertinent to the class. Note that this last value does not apply in presence of the value indf (see below).

The value common can be seen as a multilabel whose semantics is a ``disjunction" operation: in fact, the value c is a macro for m f.
It is used, when tagging, for the graphical form l' elision of lo and la when the context is not sufficient to solve the underspecification, i.e. when the gender of the agreed noun is undecided: l'insegnante.