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title: Select the formulation consistent with the rules of agreement in sta… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the formulation consistent with the rules of agreement in standard English. Exam question 3 of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 3 · Grammar puzzles, part one

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Select the formulation consistent with the rules of agreement in standard English.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, agreement · **What happens:** select, rule · **To what, where:** formulation

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:e3:1
# text = Select the formulation consistent with the rules of agreement in standard English.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	formulation	formulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 formulation |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formulation=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** |  | agreement in standard English |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Each of the boys have a bicycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:e3:o1:1
# text = Each of the boys have a bicycle
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each boys | a bicycle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bicycle=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each one of the boy have a bicycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:e3:o2:1
# text = Each one of the boy have a bicycle
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each one of the boy | a bicycle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bicycle=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each of the boys has a bicycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:e3:o3:1
# text = Each of the boys has a bicycle
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Each | a bicycle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bicycle=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each of the boys are having bicycles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:e3:o4:1
# text = Each of the boys are having bicycles
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · progressive | Each | bicycles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bicycle=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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