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title: Nationality and colour adjectives go after the noun, and nationaliti… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Nationality and colour adjectives go after the noun, and nationalities are written with a small letter: un garçon français, une fille anglaise. Who acts: Nationality. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 13

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Nationality and colour adjectives go after the noun, and nationalities are written with a small letter: un garçon français, une fille anglaise.

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**Who acts:** Nationality · **What happens:** go, write · **To what, where:** nationalities

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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 (Nationality), 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:13
# text = Nationality and colour adjectives go after the noun, and nationalities are written with a small letter: un garçon français, une fille anglaise.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	garçon	garçon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	français	français	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	fille	fille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	anglaise	anglaise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Nationality and colour and adjectives |  |  |  | after the noun |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive |  | nationalities |  |  |  | with a small letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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 ×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.

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