Exam question 3 · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

Determine which of the following phrases conforms in all respects to the rules of position and agreement.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, position · What happens: determine, follow, conform, rule · To what, where: respects

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conforms	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 phrases	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phrases	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 phrases	amod
6	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conforms	obl
7	conforms	conform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 respects	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 respects	det
10	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conforms	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 rules	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 respects	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 position	case
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rules	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 agreement	cc
17	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 position	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	conform	present	you not said here	all respects to the rules of position and agreement	of the following phrases	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	rule		position and agreement			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

une petite fille

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	2 petite	compound
2	petite	petite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fille	compound
3	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

une petit fille

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	3 fille	compound
2	petit	petit	X	Foreign=Yes	1 une	flat:foreign
3	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

une fille petit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	2 fille	compound
2	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	petit	petit	X	Foreign=Yes	2 fille	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

un petite fille

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	un	un	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fille	det
2	petite	petite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fille	amod
3	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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