Test 13 · ★ · Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit: naughty Peter sn…

Wagwan, why did Peter's mum say don't go in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wagwan, mum · What happens: do, say, not go in · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wagwan	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Peter	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Wagwan	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Peter's mum	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go in	infinitive · do-support		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Father was hurt in a fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux:pass
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fall	det
6	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · passive		Father		a fall			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Father had an accident there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 accident	det
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Father	a accident		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient

Option 3

Mother had an accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 accident	det
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mother	a accident					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient

Option 4

Mr. McGregor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 McGregor	nmod:desc
2	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	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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