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title: Mate, what was the shilling made of, like, the proper stuff? — Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the shilling made of, like, the proper stuff? Test 1 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

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Mate, what was the shilling made of, like, the proper stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** shilling

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This is test 1 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/975-pg27200-part186/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:975-pg27200-part186:t1:1
# text = Mate, what was the shilling made of, like, the proper stuff?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the proper stuff | the shilling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the shilling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:975-pg27200-part186:t1:o1:1
# text = iron
1	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:975-pg27200-part186:t1:o2:1
# text = tin
1	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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copper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:975-pg27200-part186:t1:o3:1
# text = copper
1	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:975-pg27200-part186:t1:o4:1
# text = silver
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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