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title: Adding -e for feminine often makes the last consonant heard: petit (… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Adding -e for feminine often makes the last consonant heard: petit ("puh-TEE") becomes petite ("puh-TEET"); grand and grande, vert and verte work the same way. Who acts: Adding, petit, verte. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the french course of Mova's primary s
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 7

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Adding -e for feminine often makes the last consonant heard: petit ("puh-TEE") becomes petite ("puh-TEET"); grand and grande, vert and verte work the same way.

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**Who acts:** Adding, petit, verte · **What happens:** add, make, become, work · **To what, where:** e, consonant heard, petite, same way

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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 (Adding, petit, verte), 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:7
# text = Adding -e for feminine often makes the last consonant heard: petit ("puh-TEE") becomes petite ("puh-TEET"); grand and grande, vert and verte work the same way.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
10	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	heard	heard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	petit	petit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	puh	puh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	TEE	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
21	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
22	petite	petite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	puh	puh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
27	TEET	TEET	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	grande	grande	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	vert	vert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	verte	verte	X	FW	_	38	nsubj	_	_
38	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | e |  |  |  | for feminine | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Adding | consonant heard |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heard=Product |
| 3 | **become** | present | petit | petite |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **work** | present | verte | the same way |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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