--- title: Describing words also change to match their noun, like a chameleon c… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics description: Describing words also change to match their noun, like a chameleon changing colour: add -e for a feminine word and -s for a plural one - un chat noir, une souris noire, des chats noirs. Who acts: words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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:2 # text = Describing words also change to match their noun, like a chameleon changing colour: add -e for a feminine word and -s for a plural one - un chat noir, une souris noire, des chats noirs. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Describing describe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 chameleon chameleon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 -s -s NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 27 plural plural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 noir noir NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 36 dep _ _ 35 souris souris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 noire noire NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 40 noirs noir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | present | words | | | | | like a changing colour and souris noire and des chats | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **match** | to-infinitive | words *not said here* | words's noun | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **change** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | e and -s | | | | for a feminine word | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient | 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. **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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/1/) - next →: [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/)