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title: Some adjectives double their last letter before adding e: gros and g… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Some adjectives double their last letter before adding e: gros and grosse, bon and bonne, gentil and gentille. 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 
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 12

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Some adjectives double their last letter before adding e: gros and grosse, bon and bonne, gentil and gentille.

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**Who acts:** adjectives · **What happens:** double, add, letter · **To what, where:** last letter, e

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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:12
# text = Some adjectives double their last letter before adding e: gros and grosse, bon and bonne, gentil and gentille.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	double	double	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gros	gro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grosse	grosse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bonne	bonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	gentil	gentil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gentille	gentille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **double** | present | some adjectives | adjectives's last letter |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | some adjectives *not said here* | e |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient |
| 3 | **letter** |  | adjectives *= adjective* |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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