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title: Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite. — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite. 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 clause.
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 14

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Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite.

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**Who acts:** Adjectives · **What happens:** agree

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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:14
# text = Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite.
# 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	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	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	appos	_	_
8	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	petit	petit	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	elle	elle	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
12	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	petite	petite	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Adjectives |  |  |  | after est |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:14`.

**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.

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

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