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description: Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid." What's true? Test 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; Mova
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

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Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid." What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, adjective · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** kid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» of the French course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:1
# text = Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	after	after	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate from Manchester |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | French *obl*; backwards *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | every adjective | our kid |  |  |  | after *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Most go after, but BAGS words like grand go before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:o1:1
# text = Most go after, but BAGS words like grand go before
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	BAGS	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Most |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | BAGS words like grand |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only colours go after, everything else before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:o2:1
# text = Only colours go after, everything else before
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | colours | everything |  |  |  | after, before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, every single one goes before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:o3:1
# text = No, every single one goes before
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | every single one |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He's right, every single one goes after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing:t1:o4:1
# text = He's right, every single one goes after
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go after** | present | every single one |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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