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description: Determine which of the following phrases conforms in all respects to the rules of position and agreement. Exam question 3 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 3 · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

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Determine which of the following phrases conforms in all respects to the rules of position and agreement.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, position · **What happens:** determine, follow, conform, rule · **To what, where:** respects

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e3:1
# text = Determine which of the following phrases conforms in all respects to the rules of position and agreement.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	conforms	conform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **conform** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | all respects to the rules of position and agreement |  | of the following phrases | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **rule** |  | position and agreement |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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une petite fille

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e3:o1:1
# text = une petite fille
1	une	une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	petite	petite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fille	fille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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une petit fille

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e3:o2:1
# text = une petit fille
1	une	une	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	petit	petit	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	fille	fille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
une fille petit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e3:o3:1
# text = une fille petit
1	une	une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	fille	fille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	petit	petit	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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un petite fille

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:e3:o4:1
# text = un petite fille
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	petite	petite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fille	fille	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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