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description: It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir. Determine the correct form. Exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Clothes» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · Clothes

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It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir. Determine the correct form.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plural feminine noun, you · **What happens:** give, be, determine · **To what, where:** It, correct form

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Clothes» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/17-clothes/#e4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:1
# text = It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	qualified	qualified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	adjective	adjective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	noir	noir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a plural feminine noun |  |  |  |  | by the adjective noir; qualified *property* | tree rules |

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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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*Sentence 2:* Determine the correct form.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:2
# text = Determine the correct form.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct form |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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noir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:o1:1
# text = noir
1	noir	noir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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noires

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:o2:1
# text = noires
1	noires	noire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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noirs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:o3:1
# text = noirs
1	noirs	noir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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noire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e4:o4:1
# text = noire
1	noire	noire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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