Exam question 1 · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…
Upon what did the Rabbit's tear descend, and what arose therefrom?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tear · What happens: do, descend, arise · To what, where: tear
This is exam question 1 of lesson 160 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear grows a flower, a Fairy makes the Rabbit Real» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rabbit | case |
| 7 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tear | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arose | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 12 arose | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Rabbit's tear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | descend | present | the Rabbit's tear not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | therefrom property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
a bush grew from the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bush | det |
| 2 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a bush | from the ground | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from ground=Patient |
Option 2
a bright white flower sprang up out of the soft warm earth in the wood
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flower | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flower | amod |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 sprang | compound:prt |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earth | amod |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earth | amod |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earth | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | a bright white flower | the soft warm earth in the wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a flower sprang from the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sprang | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | compound |
| 3 | sprang | sprang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the earth received the tear and from it a tall flower sprang up quickly, glowing in the moonlight
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tear | det |
| 5 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sprang | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flower | amod |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | compound:prt |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 sprang | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowing | punct |
| 16 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sprang | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 moonlight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moonlight | det |
| 19 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the earth | the tear | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | a tall flower | earth | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | a tall flower not said here | the moonlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |
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