Test 14 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…
Did the Boy suss it out straight away?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Boy · What happens: suss out · To what, where: it
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Boy | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 suss | nsubj |
| 4 | suss | suss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suss | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 suss | compound:prt |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 suss | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suss out | present | the Boy | it | away 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
he knew it was Bunny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Bunny | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Bunny | cop |
| 5 | Bunny | bunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | bunny property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
he did not realise at first and only thought it looked a little like Bunny
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 realise | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 realise | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 realise | advmod |
| 4 | realise | realise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 first | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 realise | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 realise | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 Bunny | case |
| 15 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not realise | past · do-support | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | he not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | it | a little | like Bunny | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
he just thought it looked like Bunny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Bunny | case |
| 7 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | it | like Bunny | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
no, he did not, and he spent a long time looking at the spotted rabbit before he realised anything at all
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spent | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spent | nsubj |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spent | obj |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 time | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 rabbit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rabbit | det |
| 16 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rabbit | amod |
| 17 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 realised | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 realised | nsubj |
| 20 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spent | advcl |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 realised | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 anything | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spend | past | he | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a long time not said here | at the spotted rabbit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rabbit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 5 | realise | past | rabbit | anything | all | tree rules |
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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