Test 7 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

Did his legs turn up dead sudden, or did he have to wait ages?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: legs, he · What happens: turn up, have, wait · To what, where: ages

This is test 7 · ★ 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	2 his	aux
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turn	compound:prt
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sudden	amod
7	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wait	mark
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wait	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	his legs		sudden property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past · do-support	he			tree rules
3	wait	to-infinitive	he not said here	ages		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

his legs turned up dead sudden after he waited for ages in the wood

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 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sudden	amod
6	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 waited	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waited	nsubj
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waited	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	his legs					sudden property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past	he			the wood	for ages		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 2

he waited ages

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 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he	ages					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he found hind legs

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	hind legs					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Topic

Option 4

he got legs fast

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	legs				fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus

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