Exam question 3 · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Which of the following items did Peter lose among the potatoes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: follow, lose

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lose	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 items	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 items	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 items	amod
5	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obl
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lose	nsubj
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 potatoes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 potatoes	det
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past · do-support	Peter					of the following items; among the potatoes	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Theme of item=Initial_Location

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

Cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A jacket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jacket	det
2	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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