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title: Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

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Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/976-pg27200-part187/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t1:1
# text = Bruv, why did folks reckon the shilling was fake?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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Cos the bloke at the stall swore someone drilled it proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t1:o1:1
# text = Cos the bloke at the stall swore someone drilled it proper
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drilled	drill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Cos a geezer scratched its face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t1:o2:1
# text = Cos a geezer scratched its face
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Cos someone bored a hole thru it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t1:o3:1
# text = Cos someone bored a hole thru it
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bored	bore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	thru	through	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos some geezer bored a hole right thru it innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t1:o4:1
# text = Cos some geezer bored a hole right thru it innit
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	bored	bore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	thru	through	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	innit	innit	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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