Exam question 2 · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

What was the reason for Mrs. Rabbit's instruction concerning Mr. McGregor's garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, instruction, Mrs. Rabbit · What happens: be, concern, instruct · To what, where: garden

This is exam question 2 of lesson 273 «Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sneaks into Mr. McGregor's garden and only just escapes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 instruction	case
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	compound
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 instruction	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rabbit	case
9	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	nmod
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 instruction	acl
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 McGregor	nmod:desc
12	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 garden	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 McGregor	case
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the reason for Mrs. Rabbit's instruction		tree rules
2	concern	gerund	Mrs. Rabbit's instruction not said here	McGregor Mr.'s garden	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus garden=Experiencer
3	instruct		Mrs. Rabbit		nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Her husband had suffered a serious accident there, so the children must never go into the garden at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suffered	aux
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 accident	det
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 accident	amod
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 suffered	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suffered	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 garden	det
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past · perfect · passive		Her husband		there			tree rules
2	not go	must	the children			the garden		at all	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her husband had suffered an accident there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suffered	aux
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 accident	det
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 suffered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	past · perfect · passive		Her husband		there			tree rules

Option 3

Her husband had been hurt by a rake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 rake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rake	det
8	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · perfect · passive		Her husband				by a rake	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Her husband had been stung by a bee in there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stung	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stung	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stung	aux:pass
5	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 bee	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bee	det
8	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stung	obl:agent
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 there	case
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past · perfect · passive	a bee	Her husband					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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