--- title: Most French adjectives come after the noun: "une voiture rouge" is "… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Most French adjectives come after the noun: "une voiture rouge" is "a red car", word for word "a car red"; a few common ones like "petit" (small) and "grand" (big) come before. Who acts: Most French adjectives, voiture rouge, few common ones. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/8/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [French compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/) / 8 # French compared with English, sentence 8 Most French adjectives come after the noun: "une voiture rouge" is "a red car", word for word "a car red"; a few common ones like "petit" (small) and "grand" (big) come before. **Who acts:** Most French adjectives, voiture rouge, few common ones · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** red car This is a sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language 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 French adjectives, voiture rouge, few common ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:8 # text = Most French adjectives come after the noun: "une voiture rouge" is "a red car", word for word "a car red"; a few common ones like "petit" (small) and "grand" (big) come before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 035-french-compared-with-english.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 ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 adjectives adjective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 12 dep _ _ 11 voiture voiture NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 rouge rouge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 petit petit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 39 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 appos _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:acl:relcl 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 46 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:conj 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 49 before before ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Most French adjectives | | | | after the noun | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | voiture rouge | a red car | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | a few common ones like petit | | | | | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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