Test 8 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit…
is the little Rabbit gutted or just dead bored?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: little Rabbit
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bored | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rabbit | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rabbit | amod |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bored | aux:pass |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 dead | cc |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 dead | advmod |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gutted | conj |
| 9 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 bored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | the little Rabbit | bore 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 · ✓ the right answer
gutted, he feels proper lonely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feels | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 gutted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lonely | amod |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | he not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | he | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
fine, he's happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 fine | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | happy property | tree rules |
Option 3
happy, he's having a nap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 having | aux |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 happy | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nap | det |
| 7 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · progressive | he | a nap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
Option 4
chuffed, he's having a laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 chuffed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 having | aux |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | participle | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present · progressive | he | a laugh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient |
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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