Test 8 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

Was his fur still dingy velveteen, or proper brown and shiny?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	3 fur	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fur	nmod:poss
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 velveteen	csubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 dingy	advmod
5	dingy	dingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 velveteen	amod
6	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brown	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 brown	cc
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brown	amod
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 velveteen	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shiny	cc
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brown	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 velveteen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his fur					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

dusty and grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grey	cc
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dusty	conj

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

Option 2

a deep glossy brown with a lovely soft shine all over his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 brown	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
3	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 shine	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shine	det
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shine	amod
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shine	amod
9	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brown	obl
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 back	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shine	nmod

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

Option 3

soft proper brown and shiny like the wild rabbits' fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brown	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 soft	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shiny	cc
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 soft	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 fur	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rabbits	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rabbits	compound
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fur	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 rabbits	case
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soft	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

brown and shiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shiny	cc
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 brown	conj

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

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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