Exam question 2 · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

Select the correctly inflected form of the adjective heureux when qualifying the feminine noun fille.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, inflect, qualify, form · To what, where: inflected form, feminine noun fille, adjective heureux

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 form	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 inflected	advmod
4	inflected	inflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 heureux	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heureux	det
8	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heureux	compound
9	heureux	heureux	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 qualifying	advmod
11	qualifying	qualify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Select	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fille	det
13	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fille	amod
14	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fille	compound
15	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 qualifying	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the inflected form of the adjective heureux		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	inflect	participle			correctly property	tree rules
3	qualify	gerund	you not said here	the feminine noun fille		tree rules
4	form			the adjective heureux		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

heureux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heureux	heureux	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

heureuxe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heureuxe	heureuxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

heureuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heureuse	heureuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

heureuses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heureuses	heureus	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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