Test 6 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit…
Sick, what did the Boy do with the Rabbit in the garden?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Boy · What happens: sick, do · To what, where: garden
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Sick | sick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sick | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boy | det |
| 6 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Rabbit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rabbit | det |
| 10 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sick | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | present | the Boy | the garden | with the Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «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
Buried him in the sandpit by the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Buried | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sandpit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sandpit | det |
| 5 | sandpit | sandpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buried | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | him = he | the sandpit | by the wall | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sandpit=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Took him on wheelbarrow rides and picnics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Took | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rides | case |
| 4 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rides | compound |
| 5 | rides | ride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Took | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 picnics | cc |
| 7 | picnics | picnic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rides | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | him = he | wheelbarrow rides and picnics | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ride=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Picnics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picnics | picnic | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hid him under the old garden bench
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hid | obj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bench | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bench | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bench | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bench | compound |
| 7 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | him = he | the old garden bench | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient under bench=Location |
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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