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title: Adjectives agree in gender and number: noir, noire, noirs, noires, a… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Adjectives agree in gender and number: noir, noire, noirs, noires, and all four sound the same. Who acts: Adjectives, four. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 10

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Adjectives agree in gender and number: noir, noire, noirs, noires, and all four sound the same.

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**Who acts:** Adjectives, four · **What happens:** agree, sound · **To what, where:** gender

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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 (Adjectives, four), 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:10
# text = Adjectives agree in gender and number: noir, noire, noirs, noires, and all four sound the same.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	noir	noir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	noire	noire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	noirs	noir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	noires	noire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:det|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Tot
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Adjectives |  |  | gender and number |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sound** | present | all four |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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