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title: Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement in the sentence "Les ___ sont vertes". Exam question 4 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement in the sentence "Les \_\_\_ sont vertes".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, noun · **What happens:** select, satisfy, require · **To what, where:** noun, requirements, agreement

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e4:1
# text = Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement in the sentence "Les ___ sont vertes".
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	satisfies	satisfy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	requirements	requirement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
16	_	_	X	GW	_	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	X	GW	_	16	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	X	GW	_	20	compound	_	_
19	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	vertes	verte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the noun |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Theme |
| 2 | **satisfy** | present | the noun | the requirements of agreement in the sentence |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus requirement=Experiencer |
| 3 | **require** |  |  | agreement in the sentence |  |  |  |  | nom requirement «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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chapeaux

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e4:o1:1
# text = chapeaux
1	chapeaux	chapeaux	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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pommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e4:o2:1
# text = pommes
1	pommes	pomme	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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pantalon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e4:o3:1
# text = pantalon
1	pantalon	pantalon	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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chats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e4:o4:1
# text = chats
1	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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