Exam question 2 · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

What is the cause of the farmer's wife's illness, as she herself asserts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: cause

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 cause	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 illness	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 farmer	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 illness	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 wife	case
11	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asserts	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 asserts	case
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asserts	nsubj:pass
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 she	conj
16	asserts	assert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the cause				of the farmer's wife's illness; as asserts	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An onion that she had eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 onion	det
2	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 eaten	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 onion	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	she	a onion not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onion=Patient

Option 2

A bad egg she had eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 egg	amod
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 egg	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	she	a bad egg not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 3

A cup of sour milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 milk	case
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 milk	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 4

An onion that she had eaten at supper that night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 onion	det
2	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 eaten	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 onion	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 supper	case
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	she	a onion not said here		supper	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onion=Patient

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