Exam question 1 · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

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

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

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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 position	det
3	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 occupied	advmod
5	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 position	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 adjective	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adjective	det
8	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occupied	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 colour	case
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 adjective	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 relation	case
12	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 noun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 noun	det
15	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 qualifies	nsubj
17	qualifies	qualify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 noun	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

At the end of the sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sentence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

After the noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 noun	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noun	det
3	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Before the noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	3 noun	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noun	det
3	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

At the beginning of the sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 beginning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beginning	det
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sentence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beginning	nmod

#	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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