Exam question 3 · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit…

Which character is described as the sole source of kindness shown toward the Rabbit within the nursery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, show · To what, where: character, kindness

This is exam question 3 of lesson 158 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit is forgotten, scorned, then loved, and learns what Real means» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 source	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 source	det
7	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 source	amod
8	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 kindness	case
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 source	nmod
11	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 kindness	acl
12	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 Rabbit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rabbit	det
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	obl
15	within	within	ADP	_	17 nursery	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nursery	det
17	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which character				as the sole source of kindness	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as source=Attribute
2	show	participle		kindness not said here				toward the Rabbit; within the nursery	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Skin Horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Skin	det
2	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Horse	compound
3	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nana

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The china dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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