Test 5 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Was the wife proper greedy or just skint?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 greedy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greedy	nsubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 greedy	advmod
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 skint	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 skint	advmod
8	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 greedy	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 greedy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wife					greedy, properly property	tree rules
2	be		the wife not said here						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

Mostly kind but a bit skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 kind	advmod
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 skint	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skint	obl:unmarked
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kind	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Proper greedy, always wanting more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 greedy	advmod
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanting	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 wanting	advmod
5	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 greedy	advcl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 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

Option 3

Just skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 skint	advmod
2	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Just poor and struggling hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 poor	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 struggling	cc
4	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 poor	conj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 struggling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	gerund						hard property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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