Test 5 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

Did the wild rabbits just stand there gawping or nick off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild rabbits · What happens: stand, gawp, nick off

This is test 5 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbits	det
3	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rabbits	compound
4	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stand	advmod
8	gawping	gawp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stand	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nick	cc
10	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stand	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 nick	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	stand	past · do-support	the wild rabbits	there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gawp	gerund	the wild rabbits not said here		tree rules
3	nick off	infinitive	the wild rabbits not said here		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

hid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

stand and gawp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gawp	cc
3	gawp	gawp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gawp	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

stand and stare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stare	cc
3	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	infinitive	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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