Exam question 2 · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

To whom did the Fairy refer as the new playfellow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, refer · To what, where: Fairy

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 refer	obj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	refer	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 playfellow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 playfellow	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 playfellow	amod
10	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refer	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 refer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Fairy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality
2	refer	present						as the new playfellow	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent whom=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

the Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the wild one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Velveteen Rabbit who lay in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rabbit	det
2	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	compound
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the Velveteen Rabbit			the wood			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wood=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rabbit	det
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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