Test 6 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

What did the Fairy call him, like a new mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: do, call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	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 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 mate	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mate	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mate	amod
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the Fairy		him = he			a new mate vocative	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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

a new companion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 companion	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 companion	amod
3	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a brand new playfellow for the Boy to share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 playfellow	det
2	brand	brand	ADV	_	3 new	advmod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 playfellow	amod
4	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Boy	det
7	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 playfellow	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 share	mark
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 playfellow	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	to-infinitive							tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a new playfellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 playfellow	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 playfellow	amod
3	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a new mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mate	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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