Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

Who got lumbered with the shilling as wages, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lumber, innit

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lumbered	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lumbered	aux:pass
3	lumbered	lumber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 shilling	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shilling	det
6	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lumbered	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 wages	case
8	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lumbered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lumbered	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lumbered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lumber	past · passive						with the shilling; as wages	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	innit	infinitive							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 rich young lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a poor old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a poor old woman who lived alone in a tiny cottage on the edge of town

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	acl:relcl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cottage	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cottage	amod
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 town	case
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor old woman			a tiny cottage		on the edge of town; alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location

Option 4

a tired old servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	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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