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title: Was his fur still dingy velveteen, or proper brown and shiny? — Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was his fur still dingy velveteen, or proper brown and shiny? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 8 · ★ · Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear gro…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/160-pg11757-part3/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t8:1
# text = Was his fur still dingy velveteen, or proper brown and shiny?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dingy	dingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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dusty and grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t8:o1:1
# text = dusty and grey
1	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t8:o2:1
# text = a deep glossy brown with a lovely soft shine all over his back
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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soft proper brown and shiny like the wild rabbits' fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t8:o3:1
# text = soft proper brown and shiny like the wild rabbits' fur
1	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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brown and shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:160-pg11757-part3:t8:o4:1
# text = brown and shiny
1	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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