Exam question 4 · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…
What did the Boy suppose the spotted rabbit to be?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Boy · What happens: do, suppose, spot · To what, where: spotted rabbit
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Boy | det |
| 4 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbit | det |
| 7 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rabbit | amod |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suppose | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 be | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rabbit | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | suppose | present | the Boy | the spotted rabbit | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent rabbit=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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 right answer
his former Bunny
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 Bunny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bunny | amod |
| 3 | Bunny | bunny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his old friend
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 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
his Bunny
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 | 2 Bunny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his lost Bunny
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 Bunny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Bunny | amod |
| 3 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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