Test 3 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit…

did the Boy really love him to bits, like proper?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, love · To what, where: Boy

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 159 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit meets two wild rabbits, is called germs, and is thrown out» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 love	advmod
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bits	case
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proper	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 proper	case
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 love	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	love	present		Boy				to bits	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

yeah, he hugged him to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hugged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj
4	hugged	hug	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 hugged	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bits	case
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hugged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	he	him = he				to bits	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he loved his whiskers right off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 whiskers	nmod:poss
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loved	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	4 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	his whiskers				off property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisker=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, he loved him a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	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 loved	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, he just left him alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	him = he				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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