Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

Did the baker chuck it back in her face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chuck · What happens: do, chuck

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chuck	det
3	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	compound
4	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	nsubj
6	back	back	ADV	_	1 Did	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

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

yeah, he flung it at her and nearly hit her face with it while swearing loudly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hit	cc
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 hit	advmod
10	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	obl
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 swearing	mark
16	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hit	advcl
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	16 swearing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fling	past	he	it	at her = she	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at she=Destination
2	hit	past	he not said here	her face	with face; nearly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with it=Instrument
3	swear	gerund	he not said here		loudly property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he slid it over the counter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	nsubj
4	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 counter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 counter	det
8	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past	he	it		the counter			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over counter=Trajectory

Option 3

nah, he gave it straight back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he threw it almost in her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it		her face		almost property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in face=Destination

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