A quality word (stative verb) sits before a noun to name it by that quality, with 的 as the linker between them.
框 · Frame
[stative verb] 的 [noun]; 的 optional after a bare one-syllable quality (新車), kept once the quality carries its own modifier (很好看的電影)
觸 · Trigger
Naming a thing by what it is like — a good film, a new car — rather than saying the thing is that way.
序 · The move
1Put the quality word in front of the noun, not after it.Am I naming the thing (好看的電影), not asserting about it (電影很好看)?
2Decide on 的: keep it once the quality has its own modifier; it may drop after a bare one-syllable quality.Does the quality carry 很/最/不? Then keep 的 (很好看的電影). Bare 好 may fuse: 好電影.
3Set the whole quality-的-noun block into the sentence as one noun phrase.Can a measure word and 這/那 sit in front of the whole block (這部很好看的電影)?
例 · Examples
1這this是is一部one (measure word for films)很好看very good-looking / very good的linker電影film。
This is a very good film.
界 · Boundary
predicate quality (電影很好看)
Quality before the noun NAMES the thing by it (好看的電影, a good film); quality after the noun ASSERTS it (電影很好看, the film is good). The 的 form is one noun phrase you can point at; the predicate form is a full sentence. Forward names, reversed asserts.