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title: What popped out of the blossom, like, a bee or a fairy? — Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What popped out of the blossom, like, a bee or a fairy? Test 2 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 2 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

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What popped out of the blossom, like, a bee or a fairy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** pop out · **To what, where:** blossom

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t2:1
# text = What popped out of the blossom, like, a bee or a fairy?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop out** | past |  | the blossom and a bee or a fairy |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Patient |

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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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a bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t2:o1:1
# text = a bee
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a fairy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t2:o2:1
# text = a fairy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	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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a rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t2:o3:1
# text = a rabbit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a moth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t2:o4:1
# text = a moth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moth	moth	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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