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

Gutted, did the shilling feel proper rubbish when they called it false?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shilling, they · What happens: gut, feel, call · To what, where: proper rubbish, rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 feel	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shilling	det
5	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rubbish	amod
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 called	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obj
13	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 called	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	the shilling not said here			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past · do-support	the shilling	proper rubbish		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme
3	call	past	they	rubbish	false property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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

nah, it was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it just felt sad inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	it					inside, sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah, like it got stabbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stabbed	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 stabbed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stabbed	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stabbed	aux:pass
6	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past · passive		it					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, like a dagger went through it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dagger	det
5	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a dagger			it			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location

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