Exam question 4 · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Which of the following was the final destination of Peter upon leaving the garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final destination · What happens: follow, be, leave · To what, where: garden

This is exam question 4 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 destination	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 destination	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 destination	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 destination	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 destination	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 destination	det
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 destination	amod
8	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Peter	case
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 destination	nmod
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 leaving	mark
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 destination	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaving	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 destination	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			of the final destination; of Peter	tree rules
3	leave	gerund	the final destination not said here	the garden		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme

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

The hole beneath the big oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 oak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oak	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 oak	amod
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hole	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The rabbit-hole beneath the fir-tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rabbit	punct
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod

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

Option 3

The rabbit-hole beneath the fir-tree where his mother waited for him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rabbit	punct
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	nsubj
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 waited	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waited	nsubj
13	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the rabbit hole			the fir tree		for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location

Option 4

The rabbit-hole beside the old gate post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 rabbit	punct
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 post	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 post	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 post	amod
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 post	compound
9	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	nmod

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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