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title: bro, what's the new bunny like, is it mint or what? — Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what's the new bunny like, is it mint or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 159 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit meets two wild rabbits, is called germs, and is thrown out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 7 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit…

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bro, what's the new bunny like, is it mint or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, bunny · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** new bunny

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 159 «Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 2: the Rabbit meets two wild rabbits, is called germs, and is thrown out» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/159-pg11757-part2/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:159-pg11757-part2:t7:1
# text = bro, what's the new bunny like, is it mint or what?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bunny	bunny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mint	mint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bro | the new bunny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | bunny |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; mint *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
white plush with real glass eyes and a bell on his ribbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:159-pg11757-part2:t7:o1:1
# text = white plush with real glass eyes and a bell on his ribbon
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plush	plush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
white plush with real glass eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:159-pg11757-part2:t7:o2:1
# text = white plush with real glass eyes
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plush	plush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all brown plush with buttons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:159-pg11757-part2:t7:o3:1
# text = all brown plush with buttons
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plush	plush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
soft white plush with a pink nose and glass eyes that shine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:159-pg11757-part2:t7:o4:1
# text = soft white plush with a pink nose and glass eyes that shine
1	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plush	plush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | present | glass eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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