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title: Identify the position customarily occupied by an adjective of colour… — Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the position customarily occupied by an adjective of colour in relation to the noun it qualifies. Exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 1 · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

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Identify the position customarily occupied by an adjective of colour in relation to the noun it qualifies.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, position · **What happens:** identify, occupy, qualify · **To what, where:** position, relation, noun

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» 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/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e1:1
# text = Identify the position customarily occupied by an adjective of colour in relation to the noun it qualifies.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	qualifies	qualify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the position |  | relation |  | to the noun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent position=Theme to noun=be' |
| 2 | **occupy** | participle |  | the position *not said here* |  |  |  | by a adjective of colour; customarily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **qualify** | present | position | the noun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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At the end of the sentence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e1:o1:1
# text = At the end of the sentence
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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After the noun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e1:o2:1
# text = After the noun
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Before the noun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e1:o3:1
# text = Before the noun
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At the beginning of the sentence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e1:o4:1
# text = At the beginning of the sentence
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** |  |  | the sentence |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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