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title: Which description most accurately characterises the wife? — Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which description most accurately characterises the wife? Exam question 4 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 4 · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

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Which description most accurately characterises the wife?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** description · **What happens:** characteris · **To what, where:** wife

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This is exam question 4 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, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1306-pg3454-part31/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:e4:1
# text = Which description most accurately characterises the wife?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | which description | the wife |  |  |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Avaricious and never content with her possessions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:e4:o1:1
# text = Avaricious and never content with her possessions
1	Avaricious	Avaricious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	content	content	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **content** | infinitive | Avaricious |  |  |  |  | with Avaricious's possessions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **possess** |  | Avaricious |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Avaricious and never content with her possessions, always scheming for more land, houses, and wealth

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:e4:o2:1
# text = Avaricious and never content with her possessions, always scheming for more land, houses, and wealth
1	Avaricious	Avaricious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	content	content	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	scheming	scheme	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **content** | infinitive | Avaricious | wealth |  |  |  | with Avaricious's possessions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **scheme** | gerund | Avaricious *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for more land and houses; always *property* | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **possess** |  | Avaricious |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Proud but generous to her friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:e4:o3:1
# text = Proud but generous to her friends
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Greedy and always wanting more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:e4:o4:1
# text = Greedy and always wanting more
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**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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