Test 10 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…
Was Peter's jacket new or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 new | cop |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 new | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Peter | case |
| 4 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 new | nsubj |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 new | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 new | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | new property | tree rules |
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
Yeah, it was blue with shiny brass buttons and a hood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 buttons | case |
| 7 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buttons | amod |
| 8 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buttons | compound |
| 9 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blue | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hood | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hood | det |
| 12 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buttons | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | with shiny brass buttons and a hood; blue property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, blue with brass buttons, and he had only just got it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 buttons | case |
| 5 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buttons | compound |
| 6 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blue | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blue | parataxis |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | he not said here | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, green with metal zips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 green | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 green | punct |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 zips | case |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 zips | compound |
| 6 | zips | zip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 green | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, blue with brass buttons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 blue | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 buttons | case |
| 5 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buttons | compound |
| 6 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blue | obl |
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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