Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

Why'd the woman drill a hole through it, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman · What happens: drill · To what, where: hole

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drill	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drill	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drill	nsubj
5	drill	drill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drill	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drill	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	5 drill	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drill	would	the woman	a hole		hole			vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

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

so she could sell it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 sell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sell	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sell	advmod

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

Option 2

to check whether it was silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 silver	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 silver	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silver	cop
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	silver					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

first to show everyone it was false

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 show	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 show	mark
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 show	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 false	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 false	cop
7	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			everyone			first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	past	it					false property	tree rules

Option 4

to test if it was real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 real	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 real	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 test	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	it					real property	tree rules

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