Exam question 3 · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

From what height does the poor brother resolve to end his own life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor brother · What happens: resolve, end · To what, where: own life

This is exam question 3 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 resolve	obl
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 resolve	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 resolve	nsubj
8	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 end	mark
10	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 resolve	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present · do-support	the poor brother						tree rules
2	end	to-infinitive	the poor brother not said here	brother's own life					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality

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 city walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walls	compound
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The city battlements

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battlements	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 battlements	compound
3	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The town gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gate	compound
3	gate	gate	NOUN	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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