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title: Some adjectives change a lot: beau and belle (beautiful), nouveau an… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Some adjectives change a lot: beau and belle (beautiful), nouveau and nouvelle (new), vieux and vieille (old). Who acts: 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 
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# Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 9

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Some adjectives change a lot: beau and belle (beautiful), nouveau and nouvelle (new), vieux and vieille (old).

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**Who acts:** adjectives · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** 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 (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:9
# text = Some adjectives change a lot: beau and belle (beautiful), nouveau and nouvelle (new), vieux and vieille (old).
# 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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	beau	beau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	belle	belle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nouveau	nouveau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	nouvelle	nouvelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	vieux	vieux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	vieille	vieille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **change** | present | some adjectives | a lot |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:9`.

**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 ×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/).

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