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+# ADR-0085 Content Style Pass v2 — Brief
+
+**Audience:** Same cheaper dev agent that did PR #73 (v1 fluency pass). You can re-read [ADR-0085-content-style-pass-brief.md](./ADR-0085-content-style-pass-brief.md) for context but most of it still applies — this v2 narrows scope to the two patterns v1 deferred or missed.
+
+**Mission:** Apply targeted 3sg-agreement and plural-after-quantifier fixes to the existing gloss entries. ~18 candidate entries identified up front. No other patterns in scope.
+
+**Estimated effort:** very small — ~18 one-character edits.
+
+---
+
+## What v1 covered (already on main as PR #73)
+
+- Article insertion (`Light is a visible medium...` ← `Light is visible medium...`)
+- Infinitive insertion (`To recall means to get memory...` ← `To recall means get memory...`)
+- Copula insertion (`Something is bad when it is different...` ← `... when it different`)
+
+All shipped. Closure verifier exits 0, cognition eval byte-identical. The composer surfaces now read well except for two remaining patterns.
+
+## What v2 covers
+
+### Pattern A — 3sg present-tense agreement after relative pronouns
+
+Glosses with `what {VERB}`, `who {VERB}`, `that {VERB}`, or `which {VERB}` where `{VERB}` is in bare form and the implied subject is singular. The verb needs an `s`.
+
+| pack | lemma | before | after |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| en_core_causation_v1 | effect | `"what cause make"` | `"what causes make"` (and `make` → `makes` too — see note) |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | beginning | `"start before what follow"` | `"start before what follows"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | creation | `"start of what make"` | `"start of what makes"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | definition | `"word that explain meaning"` | `"word that explains meaning"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | evidence | `"what support truth"` | `"what supports truth"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | light | `"a visible medium that reveal truth"` | `"a visible medium that reveals truth"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | reason | `"what explain why"` | `"what explains why"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | symbol | `"image that mean more"` | `"image that means more"` |
+| en_core_meta_v1 | example | `"one case that make a point visible"` | `"one case that makes a point visible"` |
+| en_core_meta_v1 | mind | `"part that think and know"` | `"part that thinks and knows"` |
+
+**Note on `effect`** — both verbs need the `s`: `"what causes makes"` reads wrong (looks like two finite verbs). The actual fix is `"what a cause makes"` (insert article) — that converts the second verb to make the gloss grammatical. Worth your judgment: either rewrite OR accept the slight awkwardness OR leave `effect` for a future pass.
+
+**Modal verbs are NOT 3sg.** Glosses like `"who can know and do"` (en_core_cognition_v1/person) are CORRECT — `can` is a modal, the bare verbs after it (`know`, `do`) take no `s`. Do NOT change those.
+
+### Pattern B — Plural agreement after quantifier / preposition
+
+Glosses with `between {N}`, `among {N}`, `of {N}`, `two {N}`, `three {N}`, `many {N}`, etc., where `{N}` is a count noun in singular form. The noun needs an `s`.
+
+| pack | lemma | before | after |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| en_core_attitude_v1 | broad | `"is general in many part"` | `"is general in many parts"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | context | `"relation between word"` | `"relation between words"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | order | `"relation of part to part"` | `"relation of parts to parts"` |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | style | `"way of voice and word"` | `"way of voice and words"` (note: `voice` is mass, leave it) |
+| en_core_spatial_v1 | between | `"in relation to two place"` | `"in relation to two places"` |
+
+**Three borderline cases** — apply your judgment, default to leave-alone if uncertain:
+
+| pack | lemma | gloss | judgment |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| en_core_attitude_v1 | factual | `"is of fact and truth"` | Both `fact` and `truth` are mass-noun-ish in this context. **Probably leave.** |
+| en_core_cognition_v1 | therefore | `"then because of reason"` | `reason` here is mass-noun-ish ("reasoning"). **Probably leave.** |
+| en_core_meta_v1 | argument | `"group of reason for a point"` | `reason` here is count ("group of reasons"). **Apply fix → `"group of reasons for a point"`.** |
+
+---
+
+## What v2 does NOT do
+
+- No edits beyond the patterns above. Other awkward surfaces (if any) are out of scope.
+- No edits to `definitional_atoms`, `predicates_invited`, `pos`, `lemma`, `definition_version` — same rules as v1.
+- No edits to Greek/Hebrew packs.
+- No edits to the primitives pack.
+- No new fluency patterns invented in this pass.
+
+## Phase 0 — Baseline (mandatory)
+
+```bash
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m core.cli eval cognition > baseline.json
+```
+
+## Phase 1 — Apply Pattern A edits (10 entries)
+
+For each row in the Pattern A table above, edit the gloss in place. Append `"adr-0085-style-v2:reviewed:2026-05-22"` to `provenance_ids`.
+
+## Phase 2 — Apply Pattern B edits (5 confident + 1 borderline-accepted entry = 6 total)
+
+For each row in the Pattern B table where the column says "→ ...", edit the gloss in place. Append the same provenance tag.
+
+## Phase 3 — Refresh checksums
+
+Same per-pack checksum-refresh shell snippet as v1 (in [ADR-0085-content-style-pass-brief.md](./ADR-0085-content-style-pass-brief.md) Phase 3).
+
+## Phase 4 — Verify
+
+All four must pass:
+
+```bash
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 scripts/verify_definitional_closure.py
+# Expected: 0 unresolved / 0 mismatches
+
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m pytest tests/test_adr_0084_integration_closure.py -q
+# Expected: 30 passed
+
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m core.cli eval cognition > /tmp/eval_post.json
+diff /tmp/eval_post.json baseline.json
+# Expected: empty diff
+
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m core.cli test --suite smoke -q
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m core.cli test --suite packs -q
+```
+
+If `core eval cognition` drifts byte-from-byte from baseline.json, **STOP** and roll back the edit that caused it.
+
+---
+
+## Why this v2 exists separately from a single bigger v1
+
+v1 covered the patterns that could be reliably detected via simple substring search (missing articles, missing infinitives, missing copulas). 3sg-agreement and plural-after-quantifier need a small POS-aware classifier that wasn't worth building for the v1 scope. v2 ships the *concrete row-by-row edit list* up front so no classifier is required — you just apply the table.
+
+---
+
+## Deliverables
+
+1. Edits on branch `feat/adr-0085-content-style-pass-v2`.
+2. Draft PR titled `feat(packs): ADR-0085 content style pass v2 (3sg + plural agreement)` with this report:
+
+```
+## v2 fluency summary
+
+- pattern A (3sg): N of 10 applied, M skipped (list which + why)
+- pattern B (plural): N of 5+1 applied, M skipped
+- closure verifier: exit 0
+- integration test: 30/30
+- cognition eval: byte-identical to baseline
+- packs lane: pass
+
+## sample 10 surfaces post-v2
+
+(framed via the composer's POS table — same format as v1's report)
+```
+
+3. Mark **Draft**. Human reviews before merge.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+Same as v1. Do not touch code. Do not change atoms / predicates / pos / lemma / definition_version. Cognition eval must stay byte-identical. Closure verifier must exit 0.