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title: Adjectives ending in -eux become -euse in the feminine: heureux and… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Adjectives ending in -eux become -euse in the feminine: heureux and heureuse (happy), sérieux and sérieuse. Who acts: Adjectives. 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 cla
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 11

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Adjectives ending in -eux become -euse in the feminine: heureux and heureuse (happy), sérieux and sérieuse.

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**Who acts:** Adjectives · **What happens:** end · **To what, where:** eux, become euse

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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), 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:11
# text = Adjectives ending in -eux become -euse in the feminine: heureux and heureuse (happy), sérieux and sérieuse.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eux	eux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
6	become	become	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	euse	euse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	heureux	heureux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	heureuse	heureuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sérieux	sérieux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sérieuse	sérieuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **end** | gerund | Adjectives *not said here* | eux |  | become euse in the feminine and heureux and heureuse and sérieux and sérieuse |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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