Follow-up brief for the cheaper dev agent. Scoped tight: ~18 concrete
row-by-row edits across two patterns the v1 pass (PR #73) deferred or
missed.
Pattern A — 3sg present-tense agreement after relative pronouns
what/who/that/which followed by a bare-form verb where the implied
subject is singular. 10 candidates identified up front by repo scan:
- en_core_causation_v1/effect (with judgment note)
- en_core_cognition_v1/beginning, creation, definition, evidence,
light, reason, symbol
- en_core_meta_v1/example, mind
Brief explicitly clarifies that bare verbs after modals (`can`,
`may`, `should`) are CORRECT and must NOT be changed — flagging
the "who can know and do" case the v1 agent did right.
Pattern B — plural agreement after quantifier / preposition
between/among/of/two/three/many + count-noun-in-singular. 5
confident edits + 3 borderline cases with judgment guidance:
- en_core_attitude_v1/broad
- en_core_cognition_v1/context, order, style
- en_core_spatial_v1/between
Borderline guidance distinguishes count vs mass nouns: `reason`
in "group of reason" is count (apply fix); `reason` in "because
of reason" is mass (leave alone).
Same hard rules as v1 brief:
- no code edits
- definitional_atoms / predicates_invited / pos / lemma /
definition_version must not change
- Greek/Hebrew packs and primitives pack untouched
- closure verifier must exit 0
- cognition eval must stay byte-identical
- draft PR, human review before merge
Estimated effort: ~18 one-character edits. Whole pass should take an
order of magnitude less time than v1 because the candidate rows are
enumerated in the brief itself rather than discovered via heuristic
scan.
Why a v2 brief rather than amending v1's PR:
Plural patterns were not on v1's explicit pattern list (the v1
brief only named verb agreement, missing articles, missing
infinitives, missing copulas). 3sg agreement was named but
required a different tool than the agent had at hand. Scoping
v2 to exactly the rows known to need fixing is cheaper than
re-running the v1 heuristic scan with an expanded ruleset.
Provenance tag for the v2 pass:
adr-0085-style-v2:reviewed:2026-05-22
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