Test 5 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit…
so the doc reckons he's full of germs, dead serious?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doc · What happens: reckon, be
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 reckons | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doc | det |
| 3 | doc | doc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reckons | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 germs | case |
| 9 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 serious | punct |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 serious | amod |
| 12 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 germs | amod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | the doc | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | doc | of germs; full property | 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
nah, he's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, flu germs, he said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 germs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 germs | compound |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 germs | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | flu germs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, scarlet fever germs, he said so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 germs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | compound |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 germs | compound |
| 5 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 germs | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fever germs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, just a bit of dust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dust | case |
| 7 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
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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