This decrease results directly from the word order difference between French and English, as English adjectives are almost always preposed 6 while their position in French is less deterministic: in the French UD, 28% of the adjectives occur before their head noun and 72% after it.
the UAS NOUN ADJ score on French actually decomposes as 96.8% for UAS NOUN preposed ADJ and 34.5% for UAS NOUN postposed ADJ .