Test 13 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

Was the other rabbit the Boy's old Bunny, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: other rabbit

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rabbit	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rabbit	amod
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rabbit	appos
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Boy	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bunny	amod
9	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Boy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 rabbit	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rabbit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the other rabbit					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

it was a wild rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rabbit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rabbit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rabbit	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rabbit	amod
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a wild rabbit					tree rules

Option 2

yes, it was the old Bunny the Boy had lost in the scarlet fever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Bunny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Bunny	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bunny	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bunny	amod
7	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lost	nsubj:pass
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Boy	det
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bunny	appos
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 fever	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fever	det
14	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fever	compound
15	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the old Bunny					tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		the old Bunny		the scarlet fever			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

it was the Skin Horse's cousin come back from the golden blossom wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Horse	det
4	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Horse	compound
5	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cousin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Horse	case
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
13	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			the golden blossom wood		come property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it was his own Bunny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Bunny	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Bunny	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Bunny	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bunny	amod
5	Bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	his own Bunny					tree rules

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