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

Which reason did the Fairy state for the Rabbit's being Real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, Rabbit · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Fairy state

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
5	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 state	amod
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 Real	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rabbit	det
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Real	nsubj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Rabbit	case
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 Real	cop
12	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which reason	the Fairy state					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	the Rabbit					real 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 fact that the Skin Horse had told him all about Real things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Horse	det
5	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Horse	compound
6	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	all	all	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the fact	Horse			about Real things; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his being loved by the Boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 loved	aux:pass
3	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	gerund · passive	the Boy	his = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 3

his being kind to the Boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kind	nmod:poss
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						to the Boy; kind property	tree rules

Option 4

his being loved by the Boy every single night of the whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 loved	aux:pass
3	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl:agent
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	gerund · passive	the Boy	his = he			night		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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