Test 7 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 1: the Rabbit…

Ay, why was the Rabbit's fur getting mangy, is it cos of the sun?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fur · What happens: be, get · To what, where: fur

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	8 fur	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fur	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fur	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rabbit	det
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fur	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rabbit	case
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sun	nsubj
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 fur	acl
10	mangy	mangy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 getting	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fur	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sun	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sun	nsubj
14	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	17 sun	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Rabbit's fur		tree rules
2	get	gerund	the Rabbit's fur not said here		mangy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the Rabbit's fur		cos the sun	tree rules

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

Cos he got soaked in the garden every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 soaked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soaked	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soaked	aux:pass
4	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaked	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		he			day	in the garden	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in garden=Theme

Option 2

Cos the Boy washed him far too often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 washed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washed	obj
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 washed	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	4 washed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	the Boy	him = he				far, often property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Cos of the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cos	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he was loved so much it got rubbed shabbier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 loved	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	aux:pass
4	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rubbed	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 loved	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rubbed	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rubbed	aux:pass
9	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	shabbier	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 rubbed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past · passive		he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	rub	past · passive		it				shabby property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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