Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

Bruv, who first said the shilling was dodgy and good for nothing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv, shilling · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shilling	det
7	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dodgy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dodgy	cop
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dodgy	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 nothing	case
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 dodgy	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bruv	first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the shilling	for nothing; dodgy property	tree rules
3	be		the shilling not said here		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

a bystander who saw it fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bystander	det
2	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bystander	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	a bystander	bystander					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	fall	infinitive	a bystander						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

someone who found it on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 someone	acl:relcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		it		the floor			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

some bloke in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod

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

Option 4

a random geezer near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 geezer	det
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 geezer	amod
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 geezer	nmod

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

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