Test 12 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…
Did Peter lose his stuff twice in a fortnight, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: lose · To what, where: stuff
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lose | aux |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 lose | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fortnight | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fortnight | det |
| 9 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| 11 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fortnight | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · do-support | Peter | Peter's stuff | fortnight | twice property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality |
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, a jacket and shoes, the second time this fortnight, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jacket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jacket | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jacket | det |
| 4 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoes | cc |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jacket | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jacket | conj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fortnight | det |
| 12 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fam | punct |
| 14 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jacket | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | time | this fortnight | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, a cap and gloves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cap | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gloves | cc |
| 6 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cap | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a jacket and shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jacket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jacket | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jacket | det |
| 4 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoes | cc |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jacket | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a jacket and shoes, and his lovely new blue cap too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jacket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jacket | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jacket | det |
| 4 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoes | cc |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jacket | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cap | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cap | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cap | amod |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cap | amod |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cap | amod |
| 13 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jacket | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 cap | advmod |
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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