Exam question 1 · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

To which city is the dispute of the two brothers ultimately referred for judgement?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, refer · To what, where: dispute, two brothers

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1307 «Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor brother jumps from the wall onto a sick old man, and two sons drag him to court» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 city	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dispute	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dispute	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dispute	det
6	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brothers	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 brothers	nummod
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dispute	nmod
11	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	12 referred	advmod
12	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 brothers	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 judgement	case
14	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 referred	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dispute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dispute				to which city; of the two brothers	tree rules
2	refer	participle		the two brothers not said here				for judgement; ultimately property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

Lisbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Beja

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beja	Beja	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Evora

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Evora	Evora	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Coimbra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coimbra	Coimbra	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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