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title: An adjective goes plural with its noun: les yeux bleus, les chats no… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: An adjective goes plural with its noun: les yeux bleus, les chats noirs. Who acts: adjective. A sentence of the lesson «Plurals: les, des and silent s» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 12

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An adjective goes plural with its noun: les yeux bleus, les chats noirs.

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**Who acts:** adjective · **What happens:** go

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plurals: les, des and silent s» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adjective), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson:12
# text = An adjective goes plural with its noun: les yeux bleus, les chats noirs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
10	yeux	yeux	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bleus	bleu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	les	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	noirs	noir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a adjective |  |  |  |  | with adjective's noun; plural *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with noun=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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