--- title: Picture describing your family to a penpal: "Mon frère est petit, ma… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics description: Picture describing your family to a penpal: "Mon frère est petit, ma sœur est petite, et nos chiens sont très gentils" - every describing word dresses to match. Who acts: describing word. 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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 (describing word), 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:4 # text = Picture describing your family to a penpal: "Mon frère est petit, ma sœur est petite, et nos chiens sont très gentils" - every describing word dresses to match. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 describing describe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 penpal penpal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Mon mon X FW Foreign=Yes 2 obl _ _ 11 frère frère X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 12 est est X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 13 petit petit X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ma ma X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 16 sœur sœur X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 17 est est X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 18 petite petite X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 et et X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 21 nos no X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 22 chiens chien X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 23 sont sont X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 24 très trè X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 25 gentils gentil X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat:foreign _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 - - PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 29 describing describe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 dresses dress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | gerund | | your family | | | | to a penpal; Mon *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent family=Theme to penpal=be' | | 2 | **describe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dress** | present | every describing word | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **match** | to-infinitive | every describing word *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:4`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/)