Test 10 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Who had the last word on the houses, like the actual boss?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: have · To what, where: last word, houses

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 houses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 houses	det
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boss	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 boss	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boss	det
12	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boss	amod
13	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		the last word		the houses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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

The lawyer for the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lawyer	det
2	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lawyer	nmod

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

Option 2

The brother who had the papers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brother	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 papers	det
6	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the brother	the papers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The judge in the court of law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 court	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judge	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 court	nmod

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

Option 4

The judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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