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title: A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAG… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau, joli), Age (jeune, vieux, nouveau), Goodness (bon, mauvais) and Size (petit, grand, gros). Who acts: small group, trick BAGS, you. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and ag
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 1

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A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau, joli), Age (jeune, vieux, nouveau), Goodness (bon, mauvais) and Size (petit, grand, gros).

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**Who acts:** small group, trick BAGS, you · **What happens:** go, help, remember · **To what, where:** front, you, BAGS

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» 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 (small group, trick BAGS, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:027-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing.lesson:1
# text = A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau, joli), Age (jeune, vieux, nouveau), Goodness (bon, mauvais) and Size (petit, grand, gros).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 027-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	BAGS	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	beau	beau	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	joli	joli	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
31	jeune	jeune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	vieux	vieux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	nouveau	nouveau	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	conj	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	bon	bon	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	appos	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	mauvais	mauvais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	40	conj	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Size	Size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
47	petit	petit	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	45	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	grand	grand	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	gros	gros	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	conj	_	_
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a small group of short everyday ones |  |  | front |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **help** | present | the trick BAGS | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | BAGS *= bag* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:027-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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