Test 4 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit…

Mate, did the Skin Horse ever lie to the Rabbit about stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Skin Horse · What happens: lie

This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Horse	det
5	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Horse	compound
6	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 lie	advmod
8	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Rabbit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rabbit	det
11	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · do-support	the Skin Horse				ever	to the Rabbit about stuff; Mate vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «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

Nope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, sometimes he fibbed to make him feel better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fibbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fibbed	punct
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 fibbed	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fibbed	nsubj
5	fibbed	fib	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fibbed	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fib	past	he		sometimes property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he's always truthful, even when it hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 truthful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 truthful	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 truthful	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 truthful	advmod
6	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurts	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 hurts	advmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 hurts	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurts	nsubj
11	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 truthful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					always, truthful property	tree rules
2	hurt	present	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	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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