Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

When was the shilling first declared to be false by a bystander?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shilling · What happens: be, declare · To what, where: shilling

This is exam question 2 of lesson 975 «Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false and passed from hand to hand» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 shilling	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shilling	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shilling	det
4	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 declared	advmod
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 false	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 false	cop
9	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 declared	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 bystander	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bystander	det
12	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 false	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the shilling		tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	the shilling		first property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	the shilling not said here		by a bystander; false property	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

when the baker counted coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 counted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baker	det
3	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counted	nsubj
4	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coins	amod
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	participle	the baker						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

after the coat was taken off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 coat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 taken	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past · passive					after the coat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

when it fell to the floor in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fell	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			the hall		to the floor	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hall=Location

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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