Exam question 4 · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Which description most accurately characterises the wife?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description · What happens: characteris · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» of the books 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 characterises	advmod
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	the wife				accurately property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Avaricious and never content with her possessions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avaricious	Avaricious	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 content	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 content	cc
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 content	advmod
4	content	content	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 possessions	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 possessions	nmod:poss
7	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 content	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not content	infinitive	Avaricious					with Avaricious's possessions	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	possess		Avaricious						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Avaricious and never content with her possessions, always scheming for more land, houses, and wealth

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avaricious	Avaricious	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 content	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 content	cc
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 content	advmod
4	content	content	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 possessions	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 possessions	nmod:poss
7	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 content	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scheming	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 scheming	advmod
10	scheming	scheme	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 content	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 land	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scheming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 houses	punct
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 land	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wealth	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wealth	cc
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 content	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not content	infinitive	Avaricious	wealth	with Avaricious's possessions	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	scheme	gerund	Avaricious not said here		for more land and houses; always property	vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	possess		Avaricious			nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Proud but generous to her friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 generous	cc
3	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proud	conj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 friends	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Proud	obl

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

Option 4

Greedy and always wanting more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wanting	cc
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wanting	advmod
4	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Greedy	conj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wanting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund		more				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

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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