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title: Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sou… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sounds "puh-TEET", because the e wakes up the t; and a few words change a lot, like beau into belle. Who acts: change, petit, petite, e. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the french course of Mova's
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 3

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Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sounds "puh-TEET", because the e wakes up the t; and a few words change a lot, like beau into belle.

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**Who acts:** change, petit, petite, e, few words · **What happens:** be, sound, wake up, change · **To what, where:** TEE, t, lot

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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 (change, petit, petite, e), 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:3
# text = Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sounds "puh-TEET", because the e wakes up the t; and a few words change a lot, like beau into belle.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	petit	petit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	puh	puh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	TEE	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	petite	petite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	puh	puh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	TEET	TEET	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	beau	beau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	belle	belle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **is** | present | the change |  |  |  |  | loud, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | petit | TEE |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sound** | present | petite |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wake up** | present | the e | the t |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent t=Patient |
| 5 | **change** | present | a few words | a lot |  |  |  | like beau into belle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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