Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: folks, shilling · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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	6 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 reckon	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shilling	det
8	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fake	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fake	cop
10	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	folks					Bruv vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the shilling					fake property	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

Cos the bloke at the stall swore someone drilled it proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 bloke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swore	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 stall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stall	det
6	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bloke	nmod
7	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 drilled	nsubj
9	drilled	drill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swore	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drilled	obj
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 drilled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past						cos the bloke at the stall	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drill	past	someone	stall				properly property	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Cos a geezer scratched its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 geezer	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 geezer	det
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	obl
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past		geezer's face				cos a geezer	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos someone bored a hole thru it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 bored	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 bored	nsubj
3	bored	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bored	obj
6	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	past	someone	a hole		hole			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer

Option 4

Cos some geezer bored a hole right thru it innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 geezer	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 geezer	det
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bored	obl
4	bored	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bored	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
8	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	obl
10	innit	innit	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	past		a hole		hole		cos some geezer; right property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer

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