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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 adjectives	amod
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 adjectives	amod
3	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 noun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noun	det
7	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rouge	punct
10	une	une	X	Foreign=Yes	12 rouge	dep
11	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rouge	compound
12	rouge	rouge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 car	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 rouge	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 car	cop
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 car	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 car	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 car	amod
18	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noun	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 car	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 word	punct
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 car	appos
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 word	case
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 word	nmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 red	det
26	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 red	compound
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 word	appos
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ones	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ones	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ones	amod
32	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ones	amod
33	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 come	nsubj
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 petit	case
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 petit	punct
36	petit	petit	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ones	nmod
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 petit	punct
38	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 small	punct
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 petit	appos
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 small	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 grand	cc
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 grand	punct
43	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 petit	conj
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 grand	punct
45	(	(	PUNCT	_	46 big	punct
46	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 grand	appos
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	46 big	punct
48	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
49	before	before	ADV	_	48 come	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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.

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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 ×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.

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