Test 11 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…
Was Mrs. Rabbit out with a brolly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | 3 Rabbit | cop |
| 2 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | nsubj |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 Rabbit | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 brolly | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 brolly | det |
| 7 | brolly | brolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rabbit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mrs. | with a brolly; rabbit 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, she carried a basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | she | a basket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, she took her basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 basket | nmod:poss |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | she | her basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she took her umbrella
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 umbrella | nmod:poss |
| 6 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | she | her umbrella | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, she took her umbrella and her basket down the lane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 umbrella | nmod:poss |
| 6 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 basket | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 basket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 umbrella | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lane | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lane | det |
| 12 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | she | her umbrella and her basket | down the lane | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme |
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