Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

To whom did the shilling finally return, and in what capacity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: shilling

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shilling	det
5	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 return	advmod
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 capacity	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 capacity	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 capacity	case
11	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	12 capacity	det
12	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whom	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the shilling				return obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=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

to the old woman, in her house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 woman	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 house	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to the traveller, who accepted it as current coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 traveller	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 accepted	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 accepted	nsubj
6	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 accepted	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 coin	case
9	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coin	amod
10	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past		traveller				to the traveller; as current coin	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as coin=Attribute

Option 3

to the lottery collector, in a chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 collector	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 collector	det
3	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collector	compound
4	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chest	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 chest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collector	conj

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

Option 4

to the traveller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 traveller	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
3	traveller	traveller	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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