---
title: Most adjectives go after the noun: un chien noir. — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Most adjectives go after the noun: un chien noir. Who acts: Most 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/) / 5

# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Most adjectives go after the noun: un chien noir.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Most adjectives · **What happens:** go

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Most 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:5
# text = Most adjectives go after the noun: un chien noir.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	noir	noir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Most adjectives |  |  |  | after the noun |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:5`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/4/)
- next →: [Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/6/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/)