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title: What illness did the Boy get that lost his Bunny? — Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What illness did the Boy get that lost his Bunny? Test 12 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

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What illness did the Boy get that lost his Bunny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** illness, Boy, that · **What happens:** do, get, lose · **To what, where:** Bunny

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This is test 12 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/160-pg11757-part3/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t12:1
# text = What illness did the Boy get that lost his Bunny?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | illness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lose** | past | that | Boy's Bunny |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunny=Eventuality |

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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}

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measles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t12:o1:1
# text = measles
1	measles	measle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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chicken pox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t12:o2:1
# text = chicken pox
1	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pox	pox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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flu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t12:o3:1
# text = flu
1	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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scarlet fever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t12:o4:1
# text = scarlet fever
1	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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