Test 5 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit…

Dead funny, why'd the Rabbit go all quiet when he got hugged?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: go, hug · To what, where: Rabbit

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 quiet	advmod
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 hugged	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hugged	nsubj
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hugged	aux:pass
14	hugged	hug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 go	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	the Rabbit					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hug	past · passive		Rabbit					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 Boy squeezed him too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 squeezed	nsubj
3	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squeezed	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 squeezed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	the Boy	him = he				hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Boy hugged him dead tight, so he could hardly breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hugged	nsubj
3	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hugged	obj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hugged	xcomp
6	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 breathe	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 breathe	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 breathe	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 breathe	aux
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 breathe	advmod
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hugged	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	the Boy	him = he				dead property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	breathe	could	Boy					hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was tired from playing in the garden all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 playing	mark
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules
2	play	gerund	He not said here			the garden	day		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was sad because the Boy had gone away to school and forgotten him completely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sad	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 school	case
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgotten	cc
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sad	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgotten	obj
15	completely	completely	ADV	_	13 forgotten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			sad property	tree rules
2	go away	past · perfect	the Boy		school	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
3	forget	participle	He not said here	Boy		completely property	tree rules

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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